If you could erase your worst moments from your brain, would you do it?

[exitseven]

Imagine being free from your worst memory.

[DrPepper12]

Kirk to Bones:

"I don't want my pain taken away! I need my pain! They're the things we carry with us... the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves..."

As a stoic there is no greater truth. To lose your pain makes you somehow less human. Abstractly it's great but be careful what you wish for...

[exitseven]

Classic Star Trek.

[Graptemys79]

That quote was from one of the worst Star Trek feature films, but it is a great line.

[Wiredone]

Yes I really would. I'd like to forget the last 4 months

[Wiredone]

Thanks for the mho

[OlderAndWiser]

I have learned tremendously from my mistakes and I wouldn't want to forget them, despite the pain those memories have caused.

[DarkCarousel]

My brain already did that for me!
Ah, memory suppression. Kidding… sort of.
I’d be tempted to erase the worst memory but I’d like to think I’d resist. I know who I am at this point in my life and I don’t want to take backwards steps — assuming the rest of my memories would get tossled about during extraction.

[exitseven]

@DarkCarousel how have you been?

[DarkCarousel]

I’m good! Didn’t intend to take a break here, just got insanely busy with life. How are you?

[TrueConfection]

As painful as they may be, no.

3 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance;
4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope.

Romans 5:3-4

[exitseven]

exactly.

[DrPepper12]

Holy shit. I'm agreeing with this. Will wonders never cease?

[TrueConfection]

@DrPepper12 ❤

[WhiteSteve]

Yeah, I guess so. I think my worst one is putting my cat to sleep about five years ago. The memories of that seem bolder than the 19 years of good times, so I wish I just remembered the good stuff

[midnightmoon05]

No I would not.
those were the best lessons and I learned and grew from.
I am proud to have moved on with no regrets and have become a better person.

[Simslover92]

Yep. I definitely would erase them. They've made my depression worse.

[strateguy632]

What others did bad to me, all but one, each, so i know to avoid them.

[es20490446e]

Actually this is how your memory works. It kind of erases bad moments. Not completely, but eventually the pain dilutes.

[ProbablyClueless]

No. The pain is what made me learn from the mistakes.

[AviatorTom]

Probably not. I might erase more than the target.

[Jamie05rhs]

What would that accomplish? Even if it was erased from my memory, it still happened.

[Graptemys79]

It would be tempting, but we need those painful memories to help us learn and grow.

[Dongie]

I would definitely do that!!

[SweetJoyGirl]

Yes, I would.

[robocop666]

oh yes I would