Michelle Balaev is trying to argue that "trauma" as something happened in the past, is not necessarily equivalent to "history" as being static and as never changing fact. Each time people revisit their traumas, new feelings may emerge and their opinions may change. The changes may come from current living environment, social standards, accumulated life experiences, self-healing mechanism, etc. Therefore, trauma and trauma narratives could be used creatively by people for their own needs and own vision of the past and future. Also, trauma can be both personal and social at the same time. Even when a group of people share some enthnographic characteristics, each individual in that group may perceive the same event, or trauma differently, and may or may not always carry it.