Fuck the OA.com super vets.......

[The Brain]

while holding the past up as some great era of wonderment.

Ken, you have just tried to dismiss what humanity has done since its inception.

Don't you know that we tend to view history and the past through rose-colored glasses? It will <i>always</i> seem better, becuase we tend to eliminate those events that seemed to go wrong for us. Even if you lived a horrible childhood, you'll cling to the bright spots and think that it wasn't nearly as bad as it really was. High school? You'll forget the hours late at night spent cramming for tests you barely passed, and recall those times you and friends hung out at an arcade after classes, or a school dance where you hooked up with this really cute girl. Same thing with college-- tests crams are replaced by keggers, or Spring Break.

We are designed to "erase" bad things from our memories-- accentuate the positives of things that happened to us. It keeps us from dwelling too long on depressing details.

Sure, everybody may wish for an old "Day in the Life of..." thread now (who created those threads, btw?), but I bet they have all but forgotten any inane threads that same poster created besides that one.