I believe that the passage of time makes some memories to fade away. Still, as you mention, when holding a warm cup of coffee and a nice music slips into our present one may let the mind go to lighten those experiences and moments that quietly lay in the back of our mind. One song comes to my mind. “Without you” written by Harry Nilsson, (that’s what I think) or a well known singer as Adamo, quite famous a few decades back.

At this age, one can say that memories are of all kinds, and the hardest or just the funny thing about a road of path we did not take is that we will never know where it might have led, for good or for bad.

Have a nice day