"Autobiographic narrative is more than simply remembering on paper. it is a second chance, a chance to get it right. Not that you change events, not that you don't write about helplessly watching your sister drown with all the pain and guilt you experienced, but that this time you are on your own side, even in pain and failure. Now you can tell the story with insight and find the meaning of the single experience within the context of your whole life. Remembering one's suffering from the perspective of acquired wisdom is different from simply replaying it.