if my memories shape my identity than if i cant remember or i have blocked out an experience or more i would get a clean slate theoretically speaking . now how would i block out a memory imagine never remembering heart brake again never feeling the anger of jejection
2007-02-02 02:48:10 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Well, there are two ways to approach this; you could try and fight your memories and forget the pain of heart break, or you could embrace all your memories including your mistakes and pain. Myself, I have felt a lot of pain and made a lot of mistakes, everyone does. But lets say someone offered a magic pill to make me forget everything, all the pain of heart break and anger of mistakes, would I take it? Absolutely not. Yes, pain sucks, sometimes life sucks. But even if you started life out on a clean slate you it does not change the fact that bad things happen in life and you would still eventually encounter more pain and more mistakes. Every bit of pain that does not kill me I believe makes me stronger, so to start over from scratch would be forgetting all the lessons I have already learned and losing all the strength I have already built up.
2007-02-02 03:17:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
clinically this is possible. You can get an electro-shock, of course this has some incoveniences like that you besides blocking bad memories you also block the good ones.
Around the 70´s they did this to my grand mother. And it was so sad, as we enter the room and sa her laying in bed and asking us who we were (even to her sons). But i guess this is necessary for people with extremely sad and horrible experiences.
2007-02-02 04:24:28 · answer #2 · answered by whothatBE 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blocking out, rather than embracing memories as they come to you, will stunt your growth as a person. Sometimes, unconsciously, your memory will be blocked. But as memories are unblocked, or as you experience something--embracing it, experiencing it fully, and moving on will prevent the bitterness that comes from suppression or denial.
2007-02-02 02:59:44 · answer #3 · answered by Emmy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can't. Especially if you want to... you ever been told not to think about a bear?
Besides, you ought not want to. As experience increases, so does good judgment. You won't find yourself making the same dumb mistakes twice, and you'll have more appreciation for what is good, and you'll come to realize that all things pass so there's no sense clinging to what hurts you.
2007-02-02 03:44:32 · answer #4 · answered by zilmag 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Memories are not only stored in the brain, but in the body as well. Those do not go away, they are inside us, but can be accessed specifically through therapy. I know.
2007-02-02 03:46:33 · answer #5 · answered by Terrigrrl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fact that you don't want to face and learn from this certain memory already says alot about you.
2007-02-02 02:55:36 · answer #6 · answered by lisateric 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its not your memories that shape your identity, but how you deal with them and move on, that does,,,,,,,, try to analyze them,,, see what part you played in them,,,,, what was done to you,, try to learn,,,,,, that learning part and that experience is what becomes part of your identity,,,,,, you will always be a person who had their heartbroken, for instance,,, but yet you dont become a heartbroken person
2007-02-02 03:44:26 · answer #7 · answered by dlin333 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pain is so close to pleasure....and now you know....breaking heart is not as bad as braking heart....don't stop....you'll get over it....Are you willing to cancel pleasure in order not to feel pain?
2007-02-02 03:41:09 · answer #8 · answered by Alex 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do something that would relve it and that would be trying not to get rejected again and use your heartbreak to come back and make you stronger somehow. Do something you love to do to try to get your mind off things. good luck ;)
2007-02-02 10:40:58 · answer #9 · answered by Sara V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋