Would you choose to forget?

If someone told you they could give you a pill that would make you forget a painful memory, would you take it? Or do you feel like the painful experience left you smarter/stronger/ changed in a way that you wouldnt want to lose, so you'd rather keep it?

This page is a permanent link to the reply below and its nested replies. See all post replies »

SomeMichGuy · M

I think that we are the integrated sum of all of our experiences, and we often may not even comprehend how the thread of a particular event--seemingly "good" *or* "bad", viewed in isolation--wends its Iway through the core of our being & life.

There are episodes of [i]Star Trek: The Next Generation[/i] where Capt. Picard wants to remove a young, foolish part of his past... Q allows it, and Picard is not a Captain, nor in the command set of officers, nor even a particularly good officer.

I don't know how great joys or sorrows, gambles taken or not taken, etc., become big in our lives, but it is something to soberly consider, if one were to consider such a "quick fix"...