Gauging from the number of people who dream of or actually do hook up with their old flame from high school, it is very true that we carry these thoughts possibly for the rest of our lives. Hopefully we have also gained the wisdom to know that our thoughts are just that: thoughts, with no real tooth to them and that we should not mess up our lives by acting on these thoughts. I have a friend who sought to revive a high school romance with her now-married boyfriend. It ended up costing her a lot of emotional pain and of course, the relationship ended before it really began. Most likely, we should take these thoughts out, examine them, and put them back in the brain file marked DONE.