We all do it. When something in our life goes wrong or
doesn’t work out the way we want it to, we have this compulsion to continually
think about. For some of us, we can
become quite obsessed about it. We talk
to other people about it. We search the
internet. We have intimate dialogues in
our head as we analyze it. Rationalize
it. Defend our behaviours. We even have imaginary conversations with
those individuals who we deemed have wronged us. Round and round we go.
It doesn’t matter whether it is a failed
relationship, a job loss, a dismal health prognosis, the death of someone or
even a stupid argument; we as humans have this need to troll through our memory
banks searching for the answers. Why did this happen to me? What could I have done differently? When did this chain of pain begin?
