How do you feel about memory? Is it a blessing or a curse to you? Something else entirely?

I use my past to make art. Draw upon it for lessons of wisdom. Some of what I experienced, however, I have allowed to be a hindrance to my present.

I like what F. Scott Fitzgerald says at the end of The Great Gatsby.

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

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SW-User

Sometimes I wish I have amnesia... but then I remember that my past helps my present and because of that I am what I am today.

BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

Do you ever wish you could selectively delete things from your memory so you can experience them again without knowing what's gonna happen? Like, erase your memories of your favorite movie or book so you can read or watch it again and feel like you did the first time?

SW-User

That is such a good question. Mmm.. I think I would do that to watch American Horror story season one and three one more time.😂

BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

@Deleteyourself: I wish I could it to replay the Halo video game series and experience it again. I played the games out of order so the super scary plot twist in the first game wasn't as much of a surprise to me.

DanielChristensen · 46-50, M

@BlueMetalChick: That would definitely be awesome in a way. How fresh and lovely are all things new. However it is also interesting to experience something again with a new frame of mind. I have read The Lord of The Rings as a boy, a young man and recently as a middle aged man and each combined has given me a perspective I could not have enjoyed without that experience.

BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

@DanielChristensen: That's true too. Compounding the same experience at different ages is a fun experiment.

SW-User

Would you erase the memory of the person that you fell in love with to see if you'll fall in love with her/him again?

BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

@Deleteyourself: I don't know. I've never fallen in love with anyone before and I can't judge how that feels.

DanielChristensen · 46-50, M

Woot A Halo player! Right on. I played all of them up to 3. I did experiments with the VI that were fascinating. In Halo 2 I was able to get ahead of the checkpoints and arrange weapons and obstacles. Then restart the checkpoints and watch the VI adapt. Seeing the programming adapt to new situations was like witnessing the birth of new realities.

DanielChristensen · 46-50, M

@BlueMetalChick: Falling in love is also a form of quite necessary agony. It has it's blissful moments too. Everything is magnified. It is transformative in ways that I could not describe better than the zillions of poets who have attempted to do so before me.