Discovering

Today I discovered something that lends itself to being a woman. It is hard to let go of things that have hurt you beyond your scope of understanding. Sometimes memories and the pain they have caused are so deeply ingrained in who you are becoming, it's a daily battle not to try to succumb to them. People who hurt you seemingly get to move on, forgetting the devastation they have left behind. So what do you do about it? How do you put that kind of pain in a box and shelve it? Does it ever get better or fade away?