Admittedly, my first instinct was to say yes to this prompt. After more consideration I realized that I wouldn’t want to trade all of the personal growth I’ve experienced over the last year and a half for an easier or simpler moment in the past. But while thinking about the prompt, I realized that memories are a complicated version of reality because of the imperfections inherent in the human brain, which seeks to categorize things neatly. Because of this, the memories that stand out to me have either a good or bad stamp on them, with very little in between, which means that much of reality is lost in translation. I think generally humans are able to spot the bad in things better than the good, so those memories that I view as unquestionably good are easier to poke holes into than the bad ones. The first time that I got to perform the lead role in the Nutcracker is a memory that stands out as unequivocally good. This role meant so much to me because it was one that I doubted I would ev...