Hmmm...

"Sometimes I think that remembering too much history is like alcohol or heroin - an addiction that seems to give meaning to your life but just wears you down and destroys you in the end."
Dan Simmons, A Winter Haunting

For some reason this line really struck me. I think I was translating "history" as "the past", feeling it on a more individual level, as opposed to a societal level. What do you think?