On Second Thought

After thinking more about that last post I realized that the memory often works in the other direction.

Did you ever have a relationship that ended badly? And afterwards, whenever you thought about that relationship, all you could remember were the bad things?

The human mind has way of compartmentalizing everything. Politicians know this, that's why they fixate on one issue they can use to make everything else seem black and white. That's the way the human brain likes it. Black and white. Right and wrong. Good and bad.

No nuance, no shades of gray.

That's not to say the mind is incapable of sliding on the scale, it just rather wouldn't. And do you think you'd want it to? Millennia of evolution have dictated that your good memories stay good, and your bad memories stay bad.

Why do you suppose that is?