Gar gave thought to this. What did you do? It wasn't as if there was a simple list of rules somewhere, a how-to guide for getting over the trauma of seeing the abyss inherent in the human soul. "You remember. You try to move past it. You try to make up for it. And you learn from your mistakes."
He realized how unhelpful this was, which might have been why he added, "There's not really going to be a point anytime soon where you're completely okay with everything that... happened. But sooner or later you'll stop thinking about it all the time. And sooner or later you'll let yourself laugh and tell jokes again. And sooner or later you'll see one thing happen that you know shouldn't have happened, and you'll know for a fact that the future isn't set in stone."