The day’s events gallop away into twilight, leaving a sparkling sky for me to meditate on.
I sink into slumber inviting dreams, but something hangs heavy on a tired shoulder. A few thoughts failed to make the cut and did not dissolve in dusk. They appear to be desperately calling for attention, despite being pushed away again and again.
They metamorphose into memories before I call the therapist and want to fuel my future plans.
I don’t like it this way, but where and how do I dump the past?
I’d like to wake up in a fresh, untainted dawn.
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Hi Reena, although we can push the past away, it has an annoying habit of creating an ambush at the most inappropriate time. I agree with your observation.
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There is a NLP technique of imagining the scene playing on a TV set. You gradually dim the image, turn it black and white, imagine the TV getting lashed by rains and showing a blurred screen – all in the imagination till you weaken the memory. It may not get completely erased.
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Thank you. Why not change the channel? Yes I understand the concept.
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Difficult to forget the past and live only in the future. Great story.
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Thanks for dropping by, Will! We need to have roots.
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A traumatic past, or period in your life and it is difficult to forget.
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True. They remember what happened 50 years ago, but not what happened 15 minutes back.
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That would be me lol.
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🙂
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I wish there were a way to dump the past too, Reena. Good writing!
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Thank you so much!
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Without the past, we have no narrative arc. And hence no story. Or, rather, no identity
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That’s a valid point.
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The past is always with us, Reena. I ended up squashing mine into a memory box, and most of the time, they stay there…
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I agree. But the impact is not always healthy.
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