How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d;

excerpt from ‘Eloisa to Abelard‘
by Alexander Pope

I watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind yesterday night and I find that movie really weird.  Weird because I was about to close the media player and pick another movie to watch but stayed on to see what is actually going on and ended up watching the whole movie and liked it.  Weird.

Well, the thing that attracted me to the movie was the fact that the movie was about two people erasing memories of each other for the sake of moving on.  And that I have actually wondered if that was possible.  Urm, it’s fictional so I guess it’s not possible.

And even if it is, the movie proved that it’s useless because we have tendencies to let history repeat itself.  The two main characters, Joel and  Clementine who have got their memories of each other wiped off, still met and fell in love again after two years.

Forgetting memories means not learning from them and when it repeats itself, you are still stuck at the point where you wanted to remove the memories.  Twisted but true.

On a side note, what about the saying “Forgive and forget?”  I’m all for forgiving because I believe that it is the key to freedom.  It is not easy but the effort is worth it.  Afterall, God forgave ALL of our sins through Christ alone (1 John 2:12) and who are we not to forgive when we’ve been forgiven?

I guess, the forgetting part in the saying above is more of forgetting the emotions that could paralyze you from moving forward.  I believe that God is a God of progression…He doesn’t want us to live in the past but He wants us to learn from it.

Like most people, I’ve got loads to learn and it could be tough at times, but I know God’s with me.  I just love the fact that God’s the ultimate bestest coolest teacher one could ever ask for.  So when He teaches, listen and learn…fast so you don’t have to go around in circles making the same mistake.

Twisted stories aside, I am so into Beck’s Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometimes. Can’t seem to get it off iTunes because the song isn’t sold as a single but is bundled with the album pack…which I refuse to buy JUST FOR ONE SONG.  And so I repeated the song from the link above while typing this post.  I like the electronic end bit…I don’t know how to explain myself but that particular part with the old 70s vibe just gets me.  That part reminds me of Sonic Youth’s version of Superstar.