No Memory, No Life

People have short memory - they tend to get excited over new things they see, or new people they meet, forgetting the ones they have had. This is very similar to buying a new toy for your kids, who completely forget their old toys and play only with the new one.

In fact, adults are not different from kids in this respect. When a new official is elected, a president for instance, everybody forgets the contributions of the former, and attributes all the achievements to the new one. Ironically, when it comes down to the shortcomings, all the blame goes to the former president.

Others have selective memory or conditional memory. These people remember only what they need and who they need, as long as it works in their benefit - egocentric memory. Here we are dealing with the most dangerous and sinister type of people.

Now, whether you have short or selective memory, the grassroots theology on this is to remember those who have touched your life and have done any good to you. Be thankful for all the blessings you have and pray for the people who brought those blessings into your life.

If you encountered a bad person in your life, if you were wronged or hurt, try to forget all, forgive and forget. By forgetting the bad, you clean up some space in your heart and mind as well - just as you clean up your computer from all kinds of viruses and bad files - for all the good and cherished memories you want to remember for the rest of your life. Let your good faith be a protective shield, and your conscience a prism of righteousness through which you can see and decide on what you must forget and what you ought to remember. Don't allow your good memories fade or die, because the ungratefulness will come to take that space. Instead, let the prayerful spirit of thankfulness refresh your good memories and defragment them so that you can have an easy and graceful life.

After all, know that you can't live with bad memory. If you don't refresh or fix it, one day others will do that for you in a painful way. And I'm telling you, there is nothing more unpleasant and more humiliating than that.