It’s amazing that it can linger for your whole life. No matter how far you’ve come in life with wealth, fame and fortune in your mind you’re still that little boy/girl who has there books dumped, sat alone in the lunch room etc. Howard Stern, Woody Allen and Marilyn Monroe are just two perfect examples of how the past can still haunt those who appear to have everything. The truth is you can’t sweep it under the rug or talk about it everyday to a therapist everyday but have to come to terms with your past and find some resolution. That resolution will not put the past away but keep it near a box that you can put it in when it becomes bothersome with today’s world. Resolution requires you hearing your pain of the past, opening up about it and finding some positive part that helps you with the world you are in today. For it may not truly matter to your head where you are today until you deal with where you started from in the past.