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You can't change your past.
People who incessantly dwell on 'what could have been' or 'should have been' will never move forward. Often it's not even trauma, it's just that they feel like their past-life was 'unfair' because someone else had it better than them and they are aggrieved.
And my favorite part is when you are relatively happy and have let it go and they fault you for it, like you're some asshole for not dwelling about someone did to you 20 years ago. A couple of years ago I met this girl from my high school randomly and she would kept bringing up all these things and people I had zero memory of that she was so mad about and was angry with me that I barely remembered any of it...