I think that sometimes, our minds can trick us and tweak our memories. It is done little by little so that we don't know at first, but the ending product of our memories becomes much more different than what it really was. A lot of people say that they want to go back to the past and live in a different time, with the thought that there were no problems in those days, or that they were insignificant enough to not matter at all. I disagree with this, even though I am one of these people myself. I'm only 15, and yet I still want to go back to when I was 7 to re-experience the few golden years that I spent in Canada. Since I was in elementary school, I think that whatever issues I had back then would be tiny in comparison to what I have now, and that may be true. But what I, and most people who have similar thoughts, forget, is that those problems still took up the same amount of my life as the problems that I have today are. If having to sleep at 10 PM and multiplication were the problems that I faced as a seven year-old, then not being able to sleep at 10 PM and logarithmic functions are the problems that I face today. Yes, the seven year-old's problems may seem easier, but, in essence, they are the same.
What I'm trying to say is that if our lives have always had problems, and running away from the current ones into a past self won't solve them, since there were problems in those times, as well. It's just that our perception of these events have changed so that our memories of the past now seem like it was a time of only bliss and heaven, when really, it wasn't.
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