There’s a reason “the good old days” tend to look sunnier in the rear-view mirror. Memory, it turns out, is often kinder than experience ever was

When I think about my first year in Vietnam, I think about a morning on a small balcony, a cup of black coffee, the heat rising before the city was properly awake. Motorbike horns somewhere down the lane. The smell of a pho restaurant a few doors over. Everything new, everything mine. That’s what I [...] The post There’s a reason “the good old days” tend to look sunnier in the rear-view mirror. Memory, it turns out, is often kinder than experience ever was appeared first on Space Daily .