How Do People Deal With Past Uncertainties?

The only practical purpose of the past is to provide knowledge for the future and yet there are some uncertainties that don't gain knowledge that are still thought about. Most of the time people are able to brush these off quickly like leaves on a shoulder, but sometimes they stick. When a past trouble stays on one's mind, no benefit is gained. The photo taken by Alex Webb symbolically depicts that Often people may deal with uncertainties in the past by simply dwelling on them to the point where the world around them becomes irrelevant in their consciousness. If a person deals with these ambiguities like this for too long they may end up trapped in a circle of immobility. Dwelling on past uncertainties completely changes a person's life, and

In my early years, I once tried to deal with my past ambiguities through the imobile loop of thought. It started on my mothers birthday in February when we just came home from an amazing trip to Jasper. After we finished unloading our bags, my dad asked me if I would like to park the van and of course I was ecstatic to do so. Most of the time my older siblings would be picked so I jumped on every opportunity to prove myself. As I hopped in the van the bright idea came to me that I should slam on the breaks right when I wanted to stop. When the moment came to push on the brake pedal as hard as I could, I missed and hit the gas. The van went straight through the garage door and moved the wall. For the next several months I was locked in the cycle of thinking about the past. I would not let my parents talk to me because how would they help me to realize why I missed the break pedal? Also during this several month period after, nothing seemed to make me happy. We would go skiing and my siblings would come back grinning, but all I could think about was why I went through that damn garage door. I even missed the time when the sky was so clear that apparently Mount Robson was visible from the top of MArmot Basin. My head was too busy looking at my feet feeling bad for what i've done. I was stuck in this loop for a very long time. Replaying that portion over and over in my mind like a video