memories for naught

Miss Doronjo

Gaiden
    • 4,467
    Posts
    14
    Years
    Hi folks~

    I have invented a device that...let's say, erase a "certain part" of your memory. And guess what? I'm letting you test it out! Now, If you were to accept this device, what part of your memory would you erase? Why would you?

    Or, you can simply not accept this device. In that case, do you believe that your memories are too important to let go, or be erased? If so, why wouldn't you choose to erase a certain part of your memory?

    [and I call this little invention the eraser mark 1!]
     
    I won't use your device, bew! :'p .. Memories for me, is a part of everyone's journey and experience, so why remove them? Life isn't perfect as it is, we all have bad or negative expereiences apart from postive experiences, you wouldn't enjoy life if everything is all good and stuff. :'x
     
    Does it have to be a big chunk, or perhaps little parts of life?

    If it's the latter, then I would use it. I mean, I wouldn't rid of all the bad things that have happened in my life, because some of it allowed me to grow. However, there are parts of my life in which were completely redundant (meaning it's something that has happened again and again) that I would love to pretend never happened.

    If it's some big chunk though, then I probably wouldn't use it because usually there had been some good parts mixed in with the bad parts.
     
    I probably wouldn't use that machine because as BinaryPeaches said, there are some good memories intertwined with the bad ones. Sometimes you can learn from the bad memories too.
     
    I wouldn't use The Eraser Mark 1. Why? Everybody has a huge accumulated pile of memories, some stronger than others, some good and some bad. Some memories may be burdens even. But I believe that every memory is important; they teach you things, they make you the person you are. Removing a particular memory wouldn't erase that particular part of your life which soiled it in, would it?
     
    I'd zap my memories of that whole cyberbullying incident that occured on Sppf. And that time I was shacked up in a particularly nasty Super 8 motel thanks to my sister sticking us there for her wedding.

    I'd keep everything else.
     
    Memories are so important to me that I write everything down to make sure that I forget as little as possible, so I don't know if I'd have any use for this machine. I think consciously taking away my memories would be something that would drive me crazy; knowing that there was something that happened that you wanted to forget but not being able to remember what it is or why you would want to erase it... it would slowly send me insane.

    Then again on the other hand, I'm very into 'editting' the past. Sometimes if there's something I want people to forget, I pretend it didn't happen so convincingly ("What are you talking about? I seriously don't remember that...") that I make them begin to doubt whether it did. I photoshop any tiny skin imperfections on every photo before I allow it to reach the Internet, not necessarily out of vanity, but so that maybe when I look back on these photos in 20 years time I'll have forgotten the imperfections ever existed. I'm not saying it's healthy or ideal, but that's the way I am lol

    Basically if I don't want something to have happened, it didn't. This is getting a little too philosophical for my tastes, but maybe I'd have use for this machine. If not on myself, then at least on other people.
     
    It's tough to decide on. There's one memory that's haunted me, day after day, for more than a year now. I'd gladly get rid of that one for sure. Only thing standing in the way of that is that my friends would never let me forget about it and I've learned a very valuable lesson from it - I don't want to have to go through the process of learning that lesson all over again.

    I probably wouldn't use your invention.
     
    I wouldn't use it on any BIG MAJOR memories. Pretty much, the only thing I would use it for is video games, so I can erase my memory of it to enjoy it all over again, like the first time I played it. xD Other than that, I can't think of any memories I would want erased. There are some painful ones, but they are what make me who I am. Take them away, and who knows what would happen?

    So yes for small things like video games, for a practical purpose, and no for pretty much anything else.
     
    Has someone been watching Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind recently?

    As much of a cop-out as this is going to be, I'd probably ask to have the memories I have repressed the hardest be removed. I guess I see memory as like the contents of a hard disk, and this mythical machine as like a defragmenter or something. The good memories and the bad ones make up my personality. I like my personality, so removing bad memories would probably end up changing how I behave as a person, and I don't really want that. But removing the repressed memories would, in a sense, free up more 'space' (you can tell I'm stretching this analogy) in my brain for more active ones. Not entirely sure if this make a whole load of sense, but I'mma just gonna run with it, to be honest.
     
    I would probably erase the unimportant parts. But I'd want to remember what made me who I am... I wouldn't ever give up my identity. I wouldn't even erase memories to give up pain. Or hell.. maybe I'd erase all my memories and start fresh.
     
    I don't want ANY part of my memory erased. I agree with the theory that memories are a chain that collapses when you remove a link, so I'm not willing to remove any memories from my mind, bad or sad.

    That's what I believe. good luck with your invention
     
    You must log in or register to reply here.
    Back
    Top