This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.
To my mind, forgetting is a risky strategy for living. Memory is essential to us. It is DNA. We need to remember, and we need to imagine. That's why we have books, writing, fiction.
When you forget everything, there only remains yourself - and that is not enough.
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.
I've a grand memory for forgetting.
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Memory is the thing you forget with.