Decision to Forget

With the full knowledge of what lay ahead, he chose
And this was no mistake, there was no buyer's remorse
Having climbed, at length, this mountain of regret
He'd made his peace with the decision to forget

True, the burden of remembrance exacts a fraught bill
The expense is paid in the currency of time and goodwill
It has a cumulative effect, all this cognitive friction
Such is the implicit weight of mental processing

It would soon become second nature, adapting to this loss
Yes, he accepted upfront the great transaction costs
This pose of his, that some would term selective amnesia
Was merely his favored strategy for resisting nostalgia

Decision to Forget, a playlist

A soundtrack for this note. Cultural memory is my enduring theme. (spotify version)

• Forget Regret by Roy Hargrove
• Forgetting to Remember by Kinny and Horne
• Remember to Forget by Alice Russell
• I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near) by Michael McDonald
• Forget me nots by Patrice Rushen
• How Soon we Forget by Colonel Abrams
• Don't Forget the Ghetto by Hil St. Soul
• Don't You (Forget about me) by Simple Minds
• Don't Forget by Hindi Zahra
• Remember to Forget by Passenger
• Forgetting to Remember by Kinny (ft. Nostagia 77)

File under: decisions, memory, culture, observation, strategy, perception, Buyer's Remorse, Observers are worried, poetry, toli

Writing log: March 10, 2022