Do you celebrate St Patricks day?

[Lorizael]

...And punching other boys on the arm if they don't wear green to school...

Ah yes, I do remember that. I'm so glad my memory of my childhood is often vague...

[Buster's Uncle]

Oh heck.  I'd give anything for that to be one of the bad memories.  It hurt, but no big deal.

I never tried to bruise when I was on the giving end of arm-punch games.

[Lorizael]

Curiously enough, the near-constant background noise of bullying I received during my childhood does not constitute my bad memories. In fact, I can hardly remember that at all; I just have this intellectual knowledge that it happened. (I don't think the bullying didn't affect me. My memories of it are simply vague.) My bad memories are almost always ones in which I (think I) embarrass myself in some way.

[Buster's Uncle]

The pain of getting hit goes away.  The physical pain.  That's all a punch on the arm was.