Escaping Your Past

Is it possible to escape your past?

I begin to wonder, because I seem to be unable to rid myself of my memories of my parents. The chequered history I have with them leaves me wishing that there was some way I could scrape all memopries of them from my brain, so that I can watch an epsiode of Star Trek, for example, without remembering all the idiotic theories my father has about the series.

I don't rate my chances, tbh, and I'm pretty much convinced that I'll be stuck hauling around a bucket-load of emotional and psychological baggage for the rest of my life.