You don't climb a mountain, and expect to return a new person. You are extended by the experience of climbing that mountain and everything you've accumulated in between. We should not attempt to edit, but to proceed with allowing both our treasured memories and our mistakes to co-exist and cooperate. To censor ones thoughts is to limit the possibility of being free. You can't attain the boundless opportunity of thought if you don't want to see truth. Freedom is only, but a state of mind.

There is no place our minds can't go. It is the stubborn pride of the pig that can prevent one to see, and the graciousness of a bird to allow you to see everything. To exist in the moment is the ability to be aware of the fragility of existence and expose the fleeting moments as important as the next. You are clumsy if you fail to see your mortality. Without death, life would have no value nor meaning. To care about living is to give meaning to the boundaries of time. We acknowledge death as inevitable and escapable, the men and woman who have attained immortality are the ones who shudder at the idea of death the most.