memories are painful I agree, the good ones can be painful as I have found that you look back and become immersed in time the visual bits and pieces of the memory the smells sounds and words and if it was a good time I in particular miss the good times when things where easy and everyday was not plagued by these reoccurring issues in my head the over abundance of useless and often painful emotions. I think memories are powerful because they bring back either good or bad times and I find good times are more crippling than the bad times.