POLL: If there was a drug you could take to forget parts of your past...

[twardmo]

definitely, i've already spent most of my adult life blocking out my childhood.

 

[duroc5088]

NEVER!!! i believe that what has happened in my life has lead me to where I am today. I think I am a happier more well adjusted person, because of what I have learned from my life experiences.

Dirk

 

[b_o_n_n_i_e]

Nope, not at all. I am who I am now and where I am at because of my past. Honestly, things are great and everything is working in my favor right now. If it weren't for my past, I wouldn't be this happy and fulfilled right now. Things are difficult sometimes but we always come out stronger. That's the point of it all.

 

[dolphwasser]

If I could choose the parts that I wanted to forget - then yes.

Put me down for about 20 or 30 'forgetables'. That should get me back to 'normal' for this week.

 

[dw8038r2]

My first thought was "Yes!" I'd love to forget about the times I let myself down, when I did things I'm ashamed of today. But then...if I forgot the shame, might I do those things again?

But there's no way I'd block out Danny, Dan!

 

[Joshua_me]

How can you learn from your mistakes if you don't know you made them?

Hmm...

Well, it's not *my* mistakes that haunt me, it's the actions of others in
my childhood that kinda F-ed me up.

I mean, I did some stuff in my teens and 20's that was stupid and risky as Hell, and I wouldn't want to forget them, because you do indeed learn from your own dumb decisions and their consequences.

But, the early stuff, the stuff I had no control over... If there were a pill I could take and forget it all....You'd better believe I'd be first in line.

 

[dunno260]

No, because if I forgot the worst memories of my life, I would also have to block out the best memories of my life as my life as well.

 

[brandon84]

If I could go back and change things then maybe so. I'd just make better decisions but I don't wanna forget about the bad stuff so I won't make the same mistakes.

 

[brandon84]

^ ohhh, stuff like that... well nothing of that level has ever happened to me but if it did then i guess I would want forget it... I change my answer

 

[teh_nathan]

I can identify with that very much.

You know the whole being bullied in childhood thing? Yeah, that'd be me. I didn't even have a childhood ..I didn't get a chance to enjoy it because I was bullied so much.

If it wasn't bullying, it was namecalling, etc etc.

Hmm...

Well, it's not *my* mistakes that haunt me, it's the actions of others in
my childhood that kinda F-ed me up.

 

[sherman]

No Experiences shape who we are...good or bad.

 

[trawler69]

No never, I want to remember the bullying, the parental rows, the school beatings etc. All the bad stuff because it has made me who I am along with the good stuff. It guides my actions and makes me who I am. I often work in Altzheimers homes and I wouldn't wish any form of memory loss on anybody let alone myself. But of course my view is based on a relatively un traumatic past, others are not so lucky and I can understand why they might vote yes.

 

[confusedboy23]

I wouldn't. Not even for the bad things that happened to me. I am who I am today because of everything I've been through. Good or bad....

I am thinking along these lines too but I wouldn't deny that I did have thoughts about wanting such a pill when I was just so oh depressed after I lost him but now that my mind is thinking better, I have come to realise that my past is way too valuable to be erased just like that!

 

[confusedboy23]

Cool....If you erase parts of your past then you erase things you've already learned. I don't want to have to re-learn some things...........

Ahh....true true. So you're really not just a cute face, you've got good brains too!