From a post to the Blog, Jack’s Winning Words, originally made on January 17, 2020 –
“Not the power to remember, but the very opposite…the power to forget…is a necessary condition for our existence.” (Sholem Asch) I’ve read that the average computer has from 4 to 32 gigabytes of memory compared to the brain’s 1 million gigabytes. Unbelievable! (but I read it on the internet). In order to function in society, we have to forget certain words or actions and move on. Even the best of us, at times, can be the worst of us. Did God say “Forgive and forget?” 😉 Jack
Jack’s words fit nicely with this graphic that I recently got in a daily email.
Forgetting is a way of letting go. Perhaps the advice is not aimed so much as forgetting altogether something that has happened, but rather forgetting our reaction to the event, especially if that reaction was driven by fear or anger or prejudice. Sometimes what you need to forget is blaming yourself for that event. Let go today…
Time spent reliving the past is not time spent in the present or in planning for the future; it is just time wasted. The only thing that past failures or hardships hold of any value is perhaps a lesson for the future on what not to do again. Let go today…
Beating yourself up for a poor decision yesterday just wastes time that you could be spending on making a better decision today. Let go today…
Wasting time trying to find someone else to blame means moving sideways or backwards, but not making progress forward. Let go today…
So, remember to forget. Feel those moments of disappointment, pain or sorrow and then move on. Find a place to put that memory and then close the door on it. Let go today…
It may help you, as it so often helps me, to say this little prayer – “Not my will but thy will be done.” Yo will be amazed at the power that this short prayer has to set you free. Let go today…
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