Watched ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ last night. I hadn’t seen it before and didn’t know what to expect (except that the Oneword film programme guys are always raving over it). I’m not sure what I thought about it as a film, and I won’t go into any details about it, except to pose the question: if you could erase memories, which ones would you go for, the bad ones or the happy ones which remind you that life is not like that now?
Coincidentally, when it was on I got a text from my Greek friend (wishing me a belated happy birthday). We haven’t been together since December 2005. Will we all meet up again? Will it be this year? (There are plans for meetings in Cyprus in September and Brussels in October, but they depend on funding being available). If not this year, then, I suspect, probably never. Will I ever go to the States again, and see the friends I have over there? I really don’t know, but again, it definitely won’t be this year.
So, is it better to blot out the memories of the good times, do they make things worse in the here-and-now, the humdrum? Maybe it’s better not to erase any memories, even the bad ones, because they are part of what you are, and messing with the mind is tricky. Anyway, at my age, my memories have a disturbing way of eliminating themselves when I can least afford to lose them!
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Memories
by husbandorcat
@ 10 Apr. 2007 - 06:02:39
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I recorded the film, haven't watched it yet, but in response to your question I'd opt to keep all my memories good, bad and indifferent. They're what make me me. And I'm not a supporter of censorship. 
James.
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