Sometimes I wish I could delete memories like I can delete files or emails or texts or words or phrases on my computer or phone.
Most of these memories make me cringe, some make me anxious, a few make me cry.
Some of these memories are of things I said or did. Some are of things others said or did to me. Some were just plain stupid or reckless, but some were well-intentioned but taken as otherwise.
And some were just thoughts or dreams.
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Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.
Yeah, I am waiting for that technology.
I was JUST going to say that.
I find it easier and easier to forget things the older I get. Maybe you just have to wait a few more years.
I agree! There are memories that make me cringe and feel sick, although I have become a lot better at noticing them, and then putting them aside. Working on meditation and mindfulness and a lot of other things has helped. It is not doing me any good to think of them, I am not learning anything new from them (as they’re on repeat, I learned the lessons I needed to a long time ago), so I consciously put them aside.
I’m trying to be able to do that too. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Great post, CW.
Intrusive thoughts, ruminations, things that creep in my head at a geographic trigger or smell. Things I’ve done and not done and things done to me and so much brooding.
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