So did anyone else hear scientists have successfully erased memories in rats and restored them as well? Something to do with fear yadda yadda.. I'm great for recalling information haha, but I just woke up and I'm not going fishing for it just yet.
So, it got me thinking about that old cliche question: If you could go back, would you do it differently. But the 2014 spin is now: Would you erase memories. Bring any back? (No, it hasn't escaped me how amazing this is for illnesses such as Alzheimers, it's been on my radar most of my life).
We'll still find the people who wouldn't erase memories because everything leads to who they are now. I'm betting faced with the free opportunity to do so though and now is your only shot, those same people would have a list of memories they could live without. For some, bad memories are just that. Don't think of them, they have no power. For many, bad memories never go away. No matter how much they get shut out, they keep popping back up and effect their now.
As easy as it is to shut memories out, I don't like knowing they're there in other people's memories either. Or the ones only I have that are hovering above me from time to time. I don't have THAT many worthy of erasing.. but I believe my life would be that much better if I forgot them altogether.
And yes, I have memories I need to remember!!! lol. Some silly reasons, but I also know in the future I could forget people I love and it's exciting to know it may be possible to bring them back to me.
So are you an "I wouldn't be me without all of it"? Or a heck yes, sign me up!?
So, it got me thinking about that old cliche question: If you could go back, would you do it differently. But the 2014 spin is now: Would you erase memories. Bring any back? (No, it hasn't escaped me how amazing this is for illnesses such as Alzheimers, it's been on my radar most of my life).
We'll still find the people who wouldn't erase memories because everything leads to who they are now. I'm betting faced with the free opportunity to do so though and now is your only shot, those same people would have a list of memories they could live without. For some, bad memories are just that. Don't think of them, they have no power. For many, bad memories never go away. No matter how much they get shut out, they keep popping back up and effect their now.
As easy as it is to shut memories out, I don't like knowing they're there in other people's memories either. Or the ones only I have that are hovering above me from time to time. I don't have THAT many worthy of erasing.. but I believe my life would be that much better if I forgot them altogether.
And yes, I have memories I need to remember!!! lol. Some silly reasons, but I also know in the future I could forget people I love and it's exciting to know it may be possible to bring them back to me.
So are you an "I wouldn't be me without all of it"? Or a heck yes, sign me up!?
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