Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday.
-- Christopher Hitchens
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I looked at the time on the stove, and thought "Wow! It is much earlier than I thought!"
Then I remembered that it does not switch time automatically. 
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher and poet
Jenseits von Gut und Böse [Beyond Good and Evil], Aphorism 217 (1886) [tr. Zimmern (1906)]
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Blessed are the forgetful: for they "get the better" even of their blunders. [Selig sind die Vergesslichen: denn sie werden auch mit ihren Dummheiten "fertig".] Quoted by Mary Svevo (Kirsten Dunst) in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). The character says she found it in Bartlett's. (Source (German)). Other…
I'm not terrible at remembering things, but I sometimes forget. 😭
I tried using applications to remind myself of things I need to do.
But then, I'd forget to use those apps.
I have been missing a word out of my vocabulary for 3 weeks. It has been nagging at me since the conversation I had 3 weeks ago where I couldn't remember it, and has been bothering me since.
Finally free and at peace.
Kombucha.
I was explaining my favorite non-alcohol drink, I have when out at a local bar, and could only get as far as ...
"you know, that tea, black tea. Its fermented. I love one with rhubarb and hibiscus".
Made harder as trying to explain to someone who has English as a second language, and does not live in the UK.
Is there anything more nagging than a forgotten word?
A moment ago, I thought, "I better remember tomorrow that it is Festivus." Then, I decided to put it on my calendar as a yearly event. That way, I won't forget.
Who am I kidding? I'll be reminded in the morning, and then I'll forget within five minutes.
I am very sorry about the above post. I started typing and then my cat interrupted me. Now, I don't remember what I wanted to say.
Novena to St. John of the Cross, Day 9: All things are forgotten
Scripture
Lord, I have given up my pride
and turned away from my arrogance.
I am not concerned with great matters
or with subjects too difficult for me.
Instead, I am content and at peace.
As a child lies quietly in its mother’s arms,
so my heart is quiet within me.
Israel, trust in the Lord
now and forever!
(Psalm 131)
Reading
The soul is incapable of truly acquiring control of the passions and restriction of the inordinate appetites without forgetting and withdrawing from the sources of these emotions. Disturbances never arise in a soul unless through the apprehensions of the memory. When all things are forgotten, nothing disturbs the peace or stirs the appetites. As the saying goes: What the eye doesn’t see, the heart doesn’t want.
The Ascent of Mount Carmel: Book Three, Chapter 5
Prayer
O St. John of the Cross
You were endowed by our Lord with the spirit of self-denial
and a love of the cross.
Obtain for us the grace to follow your example
that we may come to the eternal vision of the glory of God.
O Saint of Christ’s redeeming cross
the road of life is dark and long.
Teach us always to be resigned to God’s holy will
in all the circumstances of our lives
and grant us the special favor
which we now ask of thee.
Mention your request
Above all, obtain for us the grace of final perseverance,
a holy and happy death and everlasting life with you
and all the saints in heaven.
Amen.
Let’s continue in prayer…
We are grateful to Professor Michael Ogunu, O.C.D.S., of the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites in Nigeria for sharing this novena.
All scripture references in this novena are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America as accessed from the Bible Gateway website.
Don’t become discouraged and give up prayer, says St. John of the Cross. We offer varying novenas to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, as well as novenas to St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Sts. Louis and Zélie Martin, St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, and St. Joseph.
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