Through history, people  have gone back into their own pasts, sometimes to a precious  time in their life, to their childhood, and often, the mind  gravitates in the past to a moment of shame, some sin committed,  some act of selfishness, an act of omission, of shallowness, the sin of anger, the sin of self-pity, trying to be a people-pleaser,  a lack of courage.
Igennem historien, er folk gået tilbage til deres egen fortid, nogen gange til en dyrebar tid i deres liv, til deres barndom, og ofte vil tankerne i fortiden drages mod til et øjeblik med skam, en begået synd, en selvisk handling, en udeladt eller overfladisk handling, vredens synd, selvmedlidenheds synd forsøg på at være en spytslikker, mangel på mod.