Drugs, Smoking, Drinking and past memories; they’re all the same, they can kill you from the inside.

Past memories burned into your mind can remind you of your least proudest moments by letting you play them over and over again, wrecking yourself through thoughts of “Oh I should have said this” or “I should have done that”. 

Reliving those past memories day in and day out is a trap, yet before you know it you’ve now become addicted. Once you’re addicted it’s hard to stop as you can go through a withdrawal very easily without your daily fix; this withdrawal is a feeling called Regret.

Like with drinking, drugs etc. You soak in the “wonderful” feeling it can bring but at the same time you also absorb the poisons that slowly kill you.

The answer to ridding addiction is simple; either stop it before it begins or pull through the withdrawal.

Ironically enough though, it’s the simplest things that can become the most complicated.

Like Love.

In a story where a character sees their future, they often see something terrible happen and as a result try to fix it. But yet when they try to fix it, they ironically cause the terrible thing to happen.

We then think “Perhaps he shouldn’t have done anything”.

But what if he chose not to do anything and the terrible thing still happens?

Then we’d think “Maybe he should have done something”.

This is one of the biggest mindfucks ever (besides Inception) because there is no right or wrong answer.

It’s a gray area.

So in this situation I’d rather not know the future because that way you won’t be tempted to go around in a circle wondering what you should do.