December 31st, 2006 at 8:14 pm
nor do I want to. I keep hearing, “forgive and forget”. I can do the first, forgiving is fairly easy with just a few exceptions. It is the forgetting where I fail by some people’s standards. And for the record, before I continue this rant, I don’t just remember everyone else’s “screwups”, I definitely remember my own.
Forgetting is just dumb. If you forget you leave yourself open to the same trauma, be it light or major. To remember allows you to prepare, but also to analyze the probability it will happen again and the risk you are willing to take.
Does that mean you (I) make the right decisions? Not necessarily, but there is another benefit to remembering: when you remember all, you have the opportunity to see the positive changes made in comparison to the negative — something you may not have really noticed had you quickly “forgotten” everything.
I have seen positive changes made by many people who started out doing really negative things. . . and that gives me hope for the future of mankind, even my own.
