Remembering and Forgetting

September 2, 2025- Tuesday

Topic of the Day- I never wrote things down to remember; I always wrote things down so I could forget. What do you want to forget? 

Being forgetful or forgetting things in the past are not necessarily things you want to do when you are in your 70’s. Forgetting things is too close to being pathological.

There are a lot of things that have happened in my life I regret. There are mistakes I have made I wish I had not made but they are part of what has made up my history. There is also the long-held belief we learn from our mistakes, so we don’t want to forget our mistakes. We don’t want to repeat those mistakes.

I think my take on this question has to do with more things I wish I could remember. This especially applies to people I have intersected in life. One of my absolute favorite times of my life was my four years in high school and I wish I remembered more of my time at Rider High. I am working to remember more of the casual events of my life and then writing them down so my family will have as much of my life as I can leave behind. That’s assuming they would be interested in what all has happened in my life.

I don’t want to be forgotten so I am writing almost daily so I will have something that lives beyond me. I don’t want to forget, I want to remember. I want to be remembered. I want to remember everything. This is a good question to consider but for me the key is remembering, not forgetting.