My comment on Katinas...about forgetting and unpleasantness

This sentence popped out to me too! It really made me think what a great thing it is that we, as humans, have the awesome power to forget, it really is a useful technique. You can pick and choose what you want to remember and what you want to forget, you can be selective and manipulative with your own thoughts and only remember what you want push what you dont want away. It is, I think as someone already stated, a great defense mechanism as well. You can choose to forget unpleasant events and memories, and then, over time, you forget that you even forgot them in the first place...and then they really become dead to you, they become nothing. Thats the good part. However forgetting is not always ones choice and not always a good, helpful thing. Many in their old age are seized by altheimers and dementia in which their memories, good and bad, are sucked from them and then they are also left with nothing. Good quote!! I like talking about this, there is a lot of aspects you can talk about:)