Elephants never forget..

People say that it's great to have a good memory...like elephants and elephants never forget.

But is it really that great?

I remember a lot of things from the time I became aware of surroundings as a child. The park in which we played as young children, the trees we plucked fruits from, the maths teacher in primary school whom I hated and the Hindi teacher who loved me,the incidents from various cities we lived in, the good times and the depressing times, some of the terrible dreams I had and could never forget, people who were so nice to me and a few terrible people I came across,wonderful moments which I would like to remember forever and really miserable moments which I hope would never appear in my life again... At school, university and work, it was great though as professionally, I could remember all sorts of data about my subjects,people,events etc.

It's good to store away the nice pieces, but the terrible ones are also there and no matter how much I would like to forget the unpleasant occasions and people, they just don't go away and pop up whenever there's an association. So, for me the saying ,'one may forgive, but will never forget'is really true.

Not exactly great to have memory like an elephant!I wish my brain could do the filtering and delete all the other memories except the pleasant ones.