Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it

jamieflemingsimpson:

We are ourselves because we cannot forget

We each carry with us an impression of other people; a trace of others etched and imprinted like a ghost in the mind. They diminish and decay and after the voice and image have departed the idea still appears unblemished as the remnant of what once was.

Think of a name and an image appears; sometimes a voice or a video plays out in your mind, other times it’s as if they’re there with you.

We cannot always choose what we desire to retain and what we want to erase. Forgetting becomes a temporary fix; transitory storage in the mind’s filing cabinet in which deleting a file initiates the inevitable paradox of remembering to forget.

We remember to learn and forget to move on and vice versa. We require thinking, remembering, and forgetting to exist, in recent years dementia has shown this and without either one, we become a shell, a shadow, a vestige, no longer present yet not entirely absent.

Think. Stop. Forget. Repeat