Forgetting is associated with the functioning of the brain, particularly some loss of memory. The physicians extend this to loss of one's ability to think clearly and speak effectively. This is extended to the inability to carry on one's day to day chore and to act or behave in a strange manner. This in its advanced level is given the strange name Alzheimer's disease. Reports say that some millions suffer from this in the US alone. The sadder part of it is it is not curable.
Remembering to live normally becomes difficult for such persons. But retaining bad memories may also make one's life miserable. Listen to the immortal words of Macbeth said out of the great love he had for his wife Lady Macbeth:
Cure her of that.
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?
Macbeth-Shakespeare
I am afraid that there is no antidote for forgetfulness too.
A report says that men are subject to be more forgetful than women. (livescience.com)
The above quote seems to indicate the same.
Remembering things may also turn into a disease. I have known people recollect incidents and words uttered in the past, even some 10 years before, to substantiate and argue their points. Civil law practitioners should have such a memory. If Hamlet had the power to forget, he would not have suffered. His suffering was because of thinking too much on the right and wrong and the pros and cons of his and others' actions.
This also proves why men in politics are more successful than women. It is because of their nature to forget what they say. With least compunction they can forget what they have uttered and act. So the normal forgetfulness is a boon rather than a disease—particularly for men.
What if we can selectively forget and live?
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