Why Remember the Pain?

Para's mas is the list of all lists. If these are forgettable locations in the desert, why does the Torah list them? Not just seemingly irrelevant material, but material that's hard, painful, bad memories, trauma, bad thoughts, negative associations. Although that journey was full of fear and unknown, uncertainty, it was a dark period, but they walked through it together and they felt each other's presence. and reviewing even nostalgically those moments gives them sakura and gives them comfort because they had each other. How do you maintain authentic belief after the two years of cataclysmic suffering and trauma of our people and you realize we may have walked through darkness but Hashem was with us and the worst fate worse than any fate that a human being can endure be exposed to is to be severed from [Music]