How do you forget?

Original post date: Thursday, November 01, 2007


How do you forget?

Do you:

Lie in bed? In just the position you fell onto the bed, and curl into a fetal position. A tear falls, you wonder how long it has been since you cried. You allow yourself to remember what you are trying to forget and that single tear turns into enough to fill a small ocean. A sob so hard that your stomach hurts. Inching your way up the bed to grab a pillow and sink into a world that has no light and no music but the rhythm of your heart. And then allow yourself a giggle as you remember Dane Cook talking about a good cry.

Do you:

Turn on the radio? It doesn't matter what you listen to, just to hear the love, pain, fear, joy of another person. Face planted close to the speaker, loud enough to drown out all of your own thoughts and for you to drown in someone else's. To listen to the magic of music slowly pulling out what it needs to survive.

Do you:

Gaze at the Heavens? Eyes raised to the sky taking in the enormity of it all. Seeing that we are but a speck in this universe. Realizing that what we do is but a nanosecond of a nanosecond during the life of our wondrous world.

Do you:

Climb a mountain? Letting the touch and feel of the earth pull out the thoughts that you are aching to release. Taking that hold with such faith that all you can think about are your actions at that very moment. Seeing the world rise above you and fall below you all at the same time, allowing you to focus on the immediate.

Do you:

Run to someone who loves you? We all have someone who loves us unconditionally. Someone who you can trust to release that memory for you and help you dispose of it. Then wrap their arms around you so tight that you know that no matter what happens to you they will hold you up so you won't stumble.

Do you:

Tell all of your friends? They say that friends are the family that you choose. Friends give us advise from a different perspective, biased but different. They will take a load from us and burden the weight for us, at least until we can handle it again.

Do you:

Do nothing? If you forget you will not learn. If you forget you will not love. If you forget you will not feel joy. If you forget you will not feel pain. What is joy if you have not experienced the pain to appreciate it.

Are you asking yourself what you do? How do you handle what you don't want to remember?
This isn't a test, there are no right answers, these are just thoughts of mine.