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Forgetting
3 January 2019 18:20One interesting thing about (slowly) migrating away from Facebook is that as I'm going through my "memories" and removing them one at a time each day, I'm seeing a lot of events from the past that were important to me, documented in detail. Having those little details documented (what I was doing, who I was doing it with, how it made me feel at the time) feels... wrong. Aren't we supposed to let our memories fuzz over that stuff? Isn't that how we move on from things?
A friend of mine once said (and I wrote it down because it was so poignant): "Things that exist in our memories can mingle with our peculiar brains and take on a life of their own." But with the Book of Faces(tm), you don't have that luxury. It stops those lives from forming.
I wonder what it does to a person, to have every single detail of one's life documented and subsequently examined later. I wonder what it does to a person to go through all of those documented details, revisiting all of the feelings attached to them, and then deleting them?
When did we forget how to forget?
A friend of mine once said (and I wrote it down because it was so poignant): "Things that exist in our memories can mingle with our peculiar brains and take on a life of their own." But with the Book of Faces(tm), you don't have that luxury. It stops those lives from forming.
I wonder what it does to a person, to have every single detail of one's life documented and subsequently examined later. I wonder what it does to a person to go through all of those documented details, revisiting all of the feelings attached to them, and then deleting them?
When did we forget how to forget?