Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the day I first saw it. But like the flower, the past cannot be trapped that way. It loses its fragrance and and its vitality, its fragility becomes brittleness and its colors fade. And when next you look on the flower, you know that it is not at all what you sought to capture, that that moment has fled forever. . Robin Hobb
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We all strive to capture the past. We want to remember it as it was, not like it is now. We want to hold on to the happiness of the past and we try to make sure we never lose it. But we can never trap time and we cannot hold on.

As time passes and we grow older, we cannot recreate the same moment ever again. We can never recapture what we felt in that moment and the memory fades.

Source: Fools Errand

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