I love HN but, let's be honest, we are often tone-deaf. Very much.
When the author writes "the past is not true", he's not trying to make a Physics or Epistemology point of any kind.
He's just telling that we torture and limit ourselves with things that no longer matter or, in this case, never happened. The anecdote might not be what you wanted to read or what would have fit the "message" best, but real world stories seldom do.
Let me ask you something: do you have something in your past that's holding you back?
Then his example is so garbage as to be worthless. He DID DO SOMETHING OBJECTIVELY BAD by driving recklessly and harming someone else. It doesn't matter after that point what narrative is spun by who, that reality happened. You don't get to absolve yourself of guilt by pretending actually it usually ends up better than you remember"
When the author writes "the past is not true", he's not trying to make a Physics or Epistemology point of any kind.
He's just telling that we torture and limit ourselves with things that no longer matter or, in this case, never happened. The anecdote might not be what you wanted to read or what would have fit the "message" best, but real world stories seldom do.
Let me ask you something: do you have something in your past that's holding you back?