Apple_in_my_Eye wrote:
Like "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"? Yeah, wanting that really sucks. Sorry to hear that.
There is one thing I'd be very tempted to erase permanently from my memory. It was a good thing at the time, the best thing of my life ever, really. And then it was gone, and now I'm stuck knowing what I'm missing, and not able to get it again. I sometimes think I was better off before, not knowing -- even if it meant the good memories would be lost (since they are most often a source of pain, since).
I don't know why the world and human beings are designed so that it's possible to feel trapped in burning pain like that. If I ever meet g-d I'll kick him in the nuts for it.
My loss is different than yours, IIRC, but I've found over years (way too many, though) that the pain has lessened some. At first, I couldn't 'process' the experience at all because thinking about it would require remembering it, which would bring on so much pain as to blot out any ability to think. It still sucks in so many ways, though. It's hard to see what the good is in having the human mind designed this way.
I don't see what good there is in it either. I hope someday the pain does lessen. So far, not a bit. That's why I wish the memories were erasable, even the good ones. All they do is remind me of what I no longer have, and that does nothing but cause pain. I'll never understand these people who treasure memories, especially of "better times". To me having them come up is like rubbing salt in an already painful, infected wound.
~Kate
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