Memories.
When the memories are gone,
The soul is lost.
This is why it is a struggle,
Between wanting to forget,
And wanting to remember.
In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
The solution to pain is to clean out your memory.
But how about the pain of forgetting?
Especially when it is not a choice.
When it is fate.
Best seen in Away From Her,
But also seen in an Asian context (especially for K-Pop fans),
내 머리 속의 지우개 A Moment to Remember.
(Although I truly liked the direct translation 'An Eraser In My Head' much better.)
Perhaps by forgetting,
The pain of forgetting is forgotten too.
In conclusion,
Blessed are the forgetful,
And cursed are the ones left who remember.
When the memories are gone,
The soul is lost.
This is why it is a struggle,
Between wanting to forget,
And wanting to remember.
In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
The solution to pain is to clean out your memory.
But how about the pain of forgetting?
Especially when it is not a choice.
When it is fate.
Best seen in Away From Her,
But also seen in an Asian context (especially for K-Pop fans),
내 머리 속의 지우개 A Moment to Remember.
(Although I truly liked the direct translation 'An Eraser In My Head' much better.)
Perhaps by forgetting,
The pain of forgetting is forgotten too.
In conclusion,
Blessed are the forgetful,
And cursed are the ones left who remember.
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2 Comments:
Two schools of thought.
1. Better to have loved and lost than not to have loved at all.
2. What you don't know won't hurt you. In this case, what you can't remember wont hurt you.
Then again, memory is the most unstable of all things. Everytime you revisit a memory you render it the present (not a memory), and when you consciously/subconsciously omit details you're creating a new memory.
If only we can bring the lessons learnt away from each memory and leave it untouched as it was. And maybe those who forget aren't the lucky ones, for they might suffer the same ill fate twice, knowingly or not.
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