I am good at this. LOL. Okay sometimes I am good at it...like where the heck did I put the car keys? I am very good at that kind of forgetting.
But forgetting other stuff...not always good at that.
But forgetting can happen. Sometimes it takes time. Sometimes it takes your focused attention on the present moment not the past. Sometimes it involves forgiveness. Sometimes it involves removing yourself from the situation to allow yourself the space to forget.
I was sexually assaulted in college by a stranger. I use to know the date and exact time. I do not anymore...time has past. I have forgotten some of it. Some I will always remember. But time has a way of taking us forward and we need to walk along with time and not demand to carry so much old stuff with us. It weighs us down. The old stuff does that.
Usually it is the painful stuff we need to leave behind. We need to forget. That is a good thing to do.
I am not saying pretend it did not happen. That denies our reality. I don't think that's helpful. But less focus on it helps us to forget it...move beyond it....once we have learn whatever we needed to learn from it.
And that is a very good thing to remember. :)