You can revise the past
“People generally believe that what’s done is done, and the past can’t be changed. But perhaps there’s another way of dealing with human history.” …. “Do you ever find yourself wishing you could change the past or at least not let it adversely affect the present? Then perhaps you’ll be intrigued, as I have been, with this statement Mrs. Eddy makes in her book Retrospection and Introspection: “The human history needs to be revised, and the material record expunged.”1
Elaine R. Follis shares her experience and thoughts revising the past