[voice] an idle curiosity in the middle of the night

[maddest]

If you could make the choice to lose one memory, what would it be?

If you don't feel like sharing the details of that moment, answer this instead- if you were really given the choice, not hypothetically in the future, but today, with all the realities and consequences you face, would you let the moment go? And would it change you?

How much of our darkest moments make us what we are?

Comments

[babblewitch.livejournal.com]

It is very confusing.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Try answering.

[onbakerstreet.livejournal.com]

I would never choose such a thing.

[voice]

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Why not?

[lcied]

There... was a time, when I would probably have chosen to forget.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

What changed?

[voice]

[grandtheftbody.livejournal.com]

If someone is affected enough by a memory that they would make the choice to forget it, then of course it would change them. And really, what a foolish choice it would be.

[voice]

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Why do you say that?

[voice]

[greatcuppajoe.livejournal.com]

Interestin' question. Sure, losin' an important memory would change ya... but anything you do can change ya. The question's more whether somebody thinks they'd like the change.

[voice]

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

That's a very interesting perspective.

[audio]

[waterbends]

I'd choose to forget dying. Because it changed who I am, but I don't like how I changed.

[audio]

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

One thing I'd like to remember better is that night.

[law-of-reason.livejournal.com]

What a pointless choice.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Now now, you're a prime example- if you had played your cards right, I might have come and visited your laboratory, never knowing what was in store for me.

[Video]

[exarmatio]

... I wouldn't want to lose any memory. Good or bad, they've all shaped me into being the person I am today.

[Video]

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

That's the right answer, of course. But-

[painhumbles.livejournal.com]

You know, angels actually get the option- well, not one memory, but when you live as long as we do... It's kind of an all-or-nothing thing.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

...you're Gabriel, aren't you?

[video]

[foeyayallday.livejournal.com]

This conversation, maybe?

[video]

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Excuse me?

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

The darkest and the brightest ones equally.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Then what about the mundanities we suffer?

[video]

[checkmychainyo.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't choose to forget a memory.

[video]

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

None whatsoever?

[Voice]

[al_truism]

... I don't know.

[Voice]

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

It feels like it ought to be easier.

[mere_shopkeeper]

_{[A thoughtful hum.]}

The day my... shipment of candy came in late.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

You have a whole shipment of candy?

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[thelightbringer]

Is there any point to me answering this? I think it's all laid out in a big book in every hotel room.

[Offline]

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Indulge me.

[Video]

[the13tharcana.livejournal.com]

It might be weird, but... I don't really remember that much of my past.
Do you have a memory of such kind?

[Video]

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

I do. One lost, then regained.

[Video]

[wingsandwill.livejournal.com]

The gain of peace of mind isn't worth the loss of knowledge and experience. What has happened to us in the past determines our choices in the future.

[Video]

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

That presupposes that every experience we have will help us make good choices. Don't you think it possible that they might have the opposite effect?

[video]

[taijiya]

I would choose not to forget anything.

[video]

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Nothing at all at all?