Someone, for his own selfish reasons, asked me to forget him. I asked why and he couldn't give a sufficient answer...all he said was "because everything will change from now on..."
So when I got this irrational request, I replied: "If you don't want to remember me, go ahead and forget..but don't ask me to do the same thing".. to this he replied: "I will never forget you".. So where did this stupid conversation came from and why did it ever surfaced? Only he will know.
I believe myself to be a woman of reason. If you ask me something and it's in my power to grant and fair to all.. why not? I refused the request not because I don't want to forget him. At that time, I just couldn't find an answer to the question "why would I do that?". People, no matter how rude they've been to you, how sweet or caring, or how insignificant, cannot be forgotten in an instant. Our brain doesn't have an on/off button or a tick box that will allow you to mark just those you need to remember.. I wish it does, God knows there are some people I would have loved to forget I've ever met. Unfortunately, things don't go that way. You have to wait for that waking moment wherein your intuition and brain would recognize that... "this person's space in your memory has expired.. you can now gladly forget" ---> at least my brain does this.
For this person, the time has come....
Now, I finally understood the reason behind the request. It wasn't for me. It was more like telling himself that everything will change and he needs to forget... to make things easier for him, he needs to dispose of irrelevant people.
Oh well, as mentioned, I, too, can concede... I am letting your memory go... go in peace...
"For a while, I thought I understood you..."
