If we do not revisit and revise the emotional opinions we formed as 4-year-olds, 11-year-olds, 16-year-olds, 20-somethings they remain the emotional opinions of 4-year-olds, 11-year-olds, 16-year-olds and 20-somethings.
Our capacity to recollect, reflect, reinterpret, reunderstand and reexperience our past is one of our means of cultivating maturity.