would you erase someone from your memory?

being able to move past traumatic experiences... or not even traumatic but bad, is something really difficult but I can manage that, I used not to be able to mainly because I couldn't control my emotions, and was analysing all the time, thinking about the past and the future instead of focusing on the now, and.. well first of I had to learn not to think about the past (or at least, everything that was negative) or worry about the future.. and then.. control my emotions, allow myself to feel, but not let myself be overwhelmed, and how did I learn that.. I don't know. I just did. Finally, another thing is to be able to laugh at myself, all my problems, all the mistakes I've made, all the bad things that happened, etc. have a sense of humor about it, not take it so seriously, be dramatic about it..

but to go back to memories... yeah I guess if we have them it's for a reason...

 

never..

 

i wouldnt
no matter how bitter our past can be
it should stay with us, in our minds

 

Ive been hurt very badly emotionally, physically, the whole lot, by one person so the question did make me think for a while. My first reaction was "yeah, of course", as it would rid me of a lot of pain i sometimes still feel, but being sensible, i wouldnt really. The experience happened for a reason. Though its not always clear what that reason is i trust its for my own growth and development, and i was blessed with insights ill never forget

I also DO believe, just like in the film, we WOULD meet again. That was one relationship which was most definitely "karmic"...it was strong, it had power, it was meant to happen to teach us. And if we were to meet now or later on in life it would have much more devastating consquences (which would probably kill me)

 

probably just about anyone who prostilotizes anything. especially things they adamantly insist on premeditatedly blinding themselves to the harm and suffering it causes.

i wouldn't mind erasing from my mind ever having had to live WITH ANYbody, from childhood right on up to and including my present day. not they i wish any of these people unhappiness. but i honestly do believe i could have done a lot more useful, even to them, had it not been for thier influence and the circumstance of being so exposed to it.

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Nothing is more important in today's world than personal responsibility for one's health and consciousness. You need to learn to speak to your body,mind and listen. Be Blessed.

 

I love Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but I have to say I would never want anything or anyone erased from my mind, no matter how painful it was...Because everything that has happened to me, including the people I have met, have affected me in some way and made me who I am...And even if the memory was painful it taught me something in the end.

 

i love that movie
i would never want to erase my memory of someone
never

 

No, you learn from those experiences, no matter how bad they are. It shapes you and helps you grow.
I love that movie too though but I cried the whoooole time

 

I'd say yes, but nothing that bad has ever happened to me.

I think the reason I'd say yes is that I can see how it'd be advantageous to grow through evil and traumatic experience and then, once grown, forget how I grew.

 

I dont think I would like to erase anything from my memory, no matter how bad or how much pain it causes. Because there's always something to learn from everything and our experiences are what determine who we are.
I think if we erase something from our memory we are just bound to repeat it, in one way or another.

 

I would erase other people's memories.

 

No, then I wouldn't be who I am, and if I'm not who I am, then who would I be?

 

as much as i hate some painful memories of mine...i'm doing my best with trying to remember them fully and confront the problem...

 

no way.
even in bad there is good.

 

Yeah, I agree. The bad people in my life have made me so much better.

 

Every experience is a learning experience. If your erasing your past you'd be erasing a part of who you are.

 

That is one of my favorite movies, but i dont know if i would, because even though you have the bad and the good memories of each person. And I learned alot about bad people and good people and how to acknoledge them better from the experience.