“I just keep re-living my mistakes,” he said, face down.

“You mean, you keep making the same mistakes?” his friend asked.

“Not really,” he said. “I mean that I just can’t forget them.”

It was clearer now.

“Remember,” his friend said slowly, “that time you defied the odds and got that recognition for a job well done? It was just like, last year, right?”

He looked up. “Yes,” he said nodding.

“How about you replay that record. You haven’t heard it in a while.” And his friend sat next to him and together they remembered the things worth remembering.