I suspect that "forgetting" is really just superficial forgiveness. True forgiveness means coming to terms with what happened. "Forgetting" seems like a cop-out, like just saying, eh, I just don't want to deal with it, let's pretend it never happened. Unless you have some type of degenerative brain disease, you're unlikely to forget the important stuff. And if you are actually able to forget it, it was probably pretty unimportant to begin with, and what you really did was forgive.
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Date: 2005-07-08 09:19 pm (UTC)I suspect that "forgetting" is really just superficial forgiveness. True forgiveness means coming to terms with what happened. "Forgetting" seems like a cop-out, like just saying, eh, I just don't want to deal with it, let's pretend it never happened. Unless you have some type of degenerative brain disease, you're unlikely to forget the important stuff. And if you are actually able to forget it, it was probably pretty unimportant to begin with, and what you really did was forgive.