As our needs and realities change, sometimes the auto-pilot aspect of our mind is intentionally and intelligently purging stuff that needs to go or moving stuff to the back of the line that need not be a priority in ones bigger picture of life. Have we ever considered that it knows what it’s doing and to back off? We often work against this because we think we are gonna miss out on something. Or sometimes we hoard sentimental attachments that we think we must remember to feel good or accomplished. Building unnecessary monuments in our mind of that which is already a part of our hearts! By all means, DO NOT get rid of every pleasing sentimental memory in your mind. I am actually advocating for the opposite of that. Trashing the hurtful/negative/trivial stuff and letting the pleasing, positive things do their good things in there. I am saying that I think some things will remain with you, in heart, or in spirit, even if the mind let’s it go. Sometimes the mind needs the room for new things that are relevant for your growth and transformation now and into the future. Whether bad or good, some thoughts and memories just get in the way or prevent that from happening. What I want to do is figure out how to perpetuate this for the good and prevent the negative from doing this same thing as much as possible. I believe that when beautiful things happen, or when beautiful people arrive and have an effect on you. The heart will remember, when the mind ceases to for whatever reason. It’s OK. The pleasant records and memories are not necessarily gone, they’ve just been archived in your heart. Sometimes the heart doesn’t store all of the specific details and exact dates the way the mind does. It just keeps the essence (or the heartbeat) of whatever that good thing is to you. Whatever remains gets released to the Universe! Try not to let your mind create restless conflict over this. The mind and heart will benefit when they are on one accord.

Sometimes stuff gets saved to our memory because something will have us feeling guilty if we don’t remember. Holding on to things to feel blameless! We’d likely be surprised of the greater things awaiting us if we just set it free and tell that ugly guilt (and whomever is coming with it) to take a hike!

Sometimes we may find ourselves terribly misusing this natural memory-discarding feature of ours. Actively trying to force its hand. Consciously trying to forget things that we don’t want to face or deal with, but need to. It may be things we have come to realize about ourselves. It’s OK. Or it may be things we’ve discovered about this relatively trouble infested world in general. If you can deal with it without igniting more conflict, please do so. Sometimes things are so bad, the core of it was built on conflict and there is no way to smash it without a bit of conflict. In such a case just keep it clean and don’t let negativity sink you in with it’s own misery while you address it. It’s gonna cause conflict either way in some cases, as long as it remains. So let’s deal with it and dissolve that bitch ass, weak, lame, imp of an issue! Many times we need help to resolve certain things and people just won’t help. Sometimes it’s the one you have conflict with. Maybe it’s the one’s who have illegitimately promised to help you with the troubles that arrive. In that case, do the best you can, with no holds barred. Then relieve yourself of the responsibility and move out and move on. If what I do here can be of some help to you in such cases, please use it to the fullest. That is one of the main reasons why I do this!

If you find yourself forgetting things, spend some quality time intelligently observing how it is affecting your mind and your life. Without beefing with it, tripping over it or guilt tripping yourself about the results. You may come to realize that you have more control over this process than you think! I’m taking the time to see if there is a need and purpose for this cool and useful feature, in this human experience. It may be found to be some good reasons and uses for it all. If so, then I’ll learn to let it do it’s job! I’ll also take over where I can and put ME back in control, instead of letting it do whatever it does without proper guidance and support. If there’s some good in this for us that we are missing, I am in dire need of knowing what that is and getting to it. If there is, I intend to take advantage of and appreciate one of the Forgotten Features of being a human that we have misunderstood and misinterpreted for all this time!

Be sure that the forgetting isn’t harming you or those around you whom you Love. You must also consider how it affects others, but don’t get too bent on what anyone else thinks. You’ll find that most of us are struggling to wrap the mind around these kinda human phenomena. We also struggle to determine and control what parts of us are features and what parts of us are our problems. Sometimes we turn features to problems by relating and living contrarily to them. Sometimes we accept and contribute to things that are our problems. Being so full of misunderstanding and misinterpretation that we embrace it, incorporating our troubles into our lives as being ‘natural’ or ‘necessary’. We often spend too much of our lives misinterpreting the reason and purpose for these kinda things and too much of our precious thought in confusion about their true cause and effect. We also spend too much energy avoiding our own responsibility to help figure it out. We leave it to some self-designated group who declares themselves the know-it-alls and governing officials of all that makes us, US. They are quite often dead wrong and other times have their own agenda in mind, against our best interest. And I am fucking tired of the nonsense and problems beyond all comprehension of everyone that I know. It sure seems that way. So much tired that I HAVE to take a second look and re-evaluate everything. Even if I am treated terribly in whatever way, for whatever reason, for doing so.

P.S. Sometimes we are forgotten about in a way that let’s us know that we (and possibly whatever we did) were and are not cared about, when we definitely should not have been. I’d say what I think of those who do this kinda BS. But it won’t be pretty. Instead I will reduce them to a trivial pursuit and move on to the things that mean something. For the one’s struggling with things like Alzheimer’s; Those directly inflicted, and those who are indirectly affected from being a part of someone that is suffering from it; I know I feel greatly for you all and hope that these Ciphers on the memory and forgetting help to soothe the unwarranted pain you are facing. I hope that they inspire new perspectives and constructive considerations that serve to ease your troubles. In no way are they intended to disrespect, justify or disregard such traumas. And I hope they quickly (if not immediately) contribute or lead to solutions that relieve the symptoms and solve the problem to some useful degree, if not entirely! Many will take the ‘forgetting’ of them, or something dear to them, personal and out of context, because we don’t understand or have a grasp on what the hell is happening. At least until we gain the clarity and will to take a look from a different perspective. For now, re-read and share these articles if you need some help getting the ball rollin’. 🙂

In the meantime…

Forget about it, eh?