Question:“On a memory you want to forget”
On a memory you want to forget
A memory you want to forget sinks deeper the harder you push it away. It is like hammering a nail to pull it out. Forgetting is not a goal. It is a result.
When the memory rises, do not close your eyes. Name five objects in the room you are in. Memory lives in the past; objects live in the present. Let the present win.
Helen stirred an Egyptian drug into the cup of Telemachus so that sorrow would be forgotten. It worked for that one evening, and the stories began again the next day.