Would you erase certain things in your memory
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MeanJoePhaser
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See, see! Memories can make you who are and who you aren't!
Total Blank "We can forget it for you wholesale!"
Total Blank "We can forget it for you wholesale!"
That might work. People would buy it. It would be the end of civilisation as we know it. Memory bleach.
This. A do-over of certain events would be handy, if only to keep myself from saying certain things it would have been wiser not to
Yes, there are certain horrible moments from my childhood I'd like to erase. Seeing a classmate run over and killed (in the most gruesome way possible) when I was 5 was not something that benefited me in any way. Being assaulted in junior high did not make me a stronger or more well-balanced person.
I would erase those memories forever, if I could.
I would erase those memories forever, if I could.
yes, crap involving school and family.
Yeah, there are a lot of annoying people I've met, from whom I've learned nothing valuable, who I'd rather forget.
Granted, they didn't rape or murder or pillage me, but if I'm getting my turn in the memory wipe machine, I get to grumble.
Thespeckledkiwi
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Pretty much my entire life. I've tried to erase memories by slamming my head into things and drinking heavily, but that only resulted in a few concussions and me sticking a friend's cat in the mail box...>.> And more memories I want to erase.
I'd like to forget having heard my mom bring up the fact that my grandfather died alone because my dirtbag uncle had to go have a smoke. I'd rather not have known that...
Oh come on.
Yes. A particularly annoying aspect of my own particular brand of neurosis is I tend to feel extreme guilt over really trivial matters. Maybe it was something inappropriate I said to a girl in high school, or a time when I blew up at someone when I shouldn't have. These things pop into my mind from time to time and for the next 5 minutes I have to deal with the shame and anxiety that accompanies them. Yes I would probably be better off trying to learn how to reduce my guilt and raise my self-esteem, but you'd be surprised at how difficult that is.
This is exactly what I was thinking as I was reading the thread.
I wouldn't be surprised at all.
But let's look at it this way: Which is harder? A few years of reprogramming, or a lifetime riddled with guilt?
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What...?
Is this what makes him a dirtbag, or was he already a dirtbag who just happened to go out for a smoke?
I mean, he couldn't have known it would be THAT 10 minutes.
I think your emotion is clouding your reason, here.
Oh, no he was already (and still is) an epic dirtbag. He's been divorced twice due to drug use, has been arrested for drug use and sales as well as a DUI, turned my grandfather's old home into his own little "pharmacy" and subsequently destroyed it, and now lives off of the charity of my grandmother and her new husband. At the age of 45.
No, for better or for worse, the things I've been through and the mistakes I've made are part of what made me the person I am today, and I would not want to erase them. They help me learn to avoid making the same mistakes again, and hopefully I can turn around what I know and how I've grown from a negative past experience and use it to create a positive future experience.
Ah, a coward dies a thousand times, right? I'm better than I was, yet every now and then, I backslide. At such times, I just remember "that he who sets his hand to plow and looks back is not fit for the Kingdom." How can I be fit for the future that awaits me if I am dwelling on the past?
Oh? What's his TBBS username?
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