I am grateful some things have passed.

I've had experiences, which, on a surface level, look like they were more about others' lives...it seems I will never be able to explain how saturated I become, for example, in all kinds of feelings about fears of persecution...I would go to bed and wake up with thoughts about the Nazi occupation of Europe in my head, and yet, now that some of that has passed, maybe it was helpful on some level, so I'd know why I feel more upset than others about certain kinds of insensitive behaviors...I can almost believe it will not have as much of a hold on me ever again in the future. It's like a long buried fear which I carried and have recently been able to face and to process more completely.