 dorine says: Interesting article. I always wonder how you can deliberately forget something... It reminds me of "doublethink" in that book by George Orwell... if you try to forget something you think about it, so the only way you could forget something if you ask me would be to make sure you have different memories you think about all the time... There is a Secret Technique being kept from us by our World Leaders...because they "can't seem to recall" anything! Kidding aside, it is so hard to forget. I think it really is time and distance from the painful experience that ultimately helps us forget...and separate from the emotions it generates. After my divorce, I never thought I would be able to forget all the hurt. I spent the better part of three months in bed sobbing. At that time, there was no one who could tell me I would forget. Ten years later...I'm as happy as a clam can be..even when I do remember, it doesn't "hurt" . Your clip might fuel a discussion in someones home today who is trying to figure out "how to forget" som... Strange though in extreme traumas the brain can block it out completely, the only problem being it can come back years later. Jane Austen said it best: "If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out." |
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