There is research out there that says your experiencing self and your narrating will have different interpretations of the same experience. While you're actuall

There is research out there that says your experiencing self and your narrating will have different interpretations of the same experience. While you're actually doing something (say cleaning or cooking) you might be uncomfortable and not like it much, but later on, you may reflect kindly because you feel like you were being responsible, productive, and maybe healthy. We've all had terrible experiences that made us miserable while we were doing it, but were made less miserable because we got to bitch about it later on. For example, I once went camping with my friends and everything went wrong. We forgot to bring tools to help us cook food. It was raining and one of our tents didn't have a rainfly, so we all had to cram into the other relatively small tent. I ended up sleeping on a pile of jagged rocks, head-to-foot with one of my friends, and at the feet of my other four friends, with my head in a puddle. On top of that, other another campsite close to us was setting off fireworks for hours (it was the 4th of July), which kept waking us up at irregular intervals throughout the night. That night sucked really hard, but it's one of my favorite stories to tell, so I don't really reflect on it negatively.