>"The Best" relative to what?
Good question. I would say "the best" is relative to whatever you have experienced in the past few decades of your life. The past is the past and can never be relived but hope for the future makes the past worth remembering. One day (we hope soon), we will be able to say that the hard times were worth the pain because we got to experience the best of times.
For the record, I'm just babbling, kek.