There is mercy in being able to forget certain things in our lives, especially if there are episodes that affected us negatively. Yet, there is also beauty in being able to remember certain things, especially as it allows us to learn from our successes and failures – and make sure history does not repeat itself.
Would you want to possess the ability of never being able to forget anything? What do you value more: being able to forget, or being able to remember?
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cracked said
this reminds me of bruce springstein:
You’ve gone a million miles
How far did you get?
That place where you can’t remember
And you can’t forget
and of letitia landon:
Were it not better to forget
Than to remember and regret?
Ah tell me not that memory
Sheds gladness o’er the past;
What is recalled by faded flowers
Save that they did not last?