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<center>[Source](https://www.t13.cl/noticia/tendencias/bbc/tuviste-un-ano-dificil-te-damos-algunos-consejos-sobre-como-olvidar-parte-de-el)</center>

# <center>The convenience of losing memory</center>

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Hello, friends of @adsactly

<div class="text-justify">It is not a secret that it is currently highly overrated to have memory. The more room a device has to store information, the more expensive and better it is. The same applies to people: any illness that degenerates our ability to store information is a life or death alert. 

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Recently, I was reading an article about memory loss. In this text the case of a man who, after having been in a coma for 15 years, wakes up one day and does not know anyone, especially his wife and children, is reviewed. This article speculates, based on several scientific studies, the need for human beings to forget some traumatic events in order to continue living. Apparently, the brain, in a natural way, activates mechanisms to "reset" itself, as a form of help or consolation in the face of some unpleasant events.

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<center>[Source](https://i.imgur.com/iCwcqIq.jpg?1)</center>


So we can say that, at some point, according to this article, oblivion can be a defense mechanism. Many times the process of overcoming traumas and bad moments has to do with forgetting. That is why erasing negative aspects of the past from our memory is not something bad, but quite the opposite. That's when I read that the secret to happiness lies in having good health and a very bad memory. There will be some truth in this sentence.

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Continuing with the article, the author informs us that the man, after having fought with his partner and having asked for a divorce, had a car accident. The man was taken to the hospital and spent 15 years there in a vegetable state, to then wake up and not know anyone. This type of pathology is clearly identified and is called dissociative amnesia, also known as functional amnesia or psychogenic amnesia. According to Wikipedia, it is a "dissociative disorder characterized by a weak loss of memory, caused by an intense episode of psychological stress, and which cannot be attributed to neurobiological causes". 

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<center>[Source](https://lamenteesmaravillosa.com/para-olvidar-hay-que-recordar/)</center>


Apparently, anyone can "unconsciously" erase passages in their life that may be negative for them. Hence, we may think that we have a selective memory, which is capable of retaining only that which interests it or is beneficial. In fact, in the article they give as an example, how sometimes we can forget what we did yesterday, but we vividly remember what we did several years ago only because memory is positive or produces happiness. Likewise, when we talk about selective memory, we infer that in that selection we have to see how deep the memories were stored in our mind in order to remember them perfectly.

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According to specialists, when we remember something, we are not like a device that reproduces the way things happened. Our memory is not a video or photographic machine. When we remember, we do not reproduce exactly, but we manage to construct and reconstruct what we have lived. In other words, we continually mold or deform our memories. Our emotional state, our feelings, the cultural context in which we live, influence the moment of remembering. We evoke according to what we lived, how transcendental it was for us, and how we lived it.

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<center>[Source](https://www.muyinteresante.es/ciencia/articulo/olvidar-podria-hacerte-mas-inteligente-431498125265)</center>


Obviously, the article also indicates that for an event to be remembered it is necessary that our levels of attention and perception function optimally because otherwise information about what happened will be lost. That's why we can say that even if you're very euphoric at a party or you've had a good time at a meeting, if you weren't attentive to events, it's normal that you don't remember much of what happened.

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Also, the article suggests that although we say that we forget involuntarily and that there is no greater responsibility in us, it seems that yes. People induce forgetting by not repeating memories or what is worse, by not being attentive to what happens to us, is presented to us or we live. In any case, everyone agrees that, if it were an electronic device, forgetting is necessary to optimize the brain's energy consumption.

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<center>[Source](https://www.cadenadial.com/2019/los-10-consejos-para-hacer-un-reset-en-tu-relacion-toma-nota-155963.html)</center>


In these days, by one of those coincidences that life gives you to put yourself to the test if you deserve heaven, I met a friend who is a militant of the governing party of Venezuela, who even occupied political positions of great importance in the state where I live. Since the meeting took place in a clinic, the first thing I asked her about was her health and she told me that she had certain problems. To say that and begin to speak ill of the Venezuelan government was the same thing. Stupefied, I thought if that friend had suffered from amnesia or had mental gaps, because as far as I remembered, she had not only supported Chavez but had been a participant in this disaster called the Bolivarian Revolution. But no, my friend had gone to the clinic because she had problems with her throat.

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In Venezuela, when someone asks you something and you answer them with something else or you make yourself misunderstood, people say that "he went crazy". Maybe acting crazy is good many times, becoming amnesic, forgetting everything. Perhaps it is necessary to forget in order to continue living, so as not to go with heavy burdens and especially to talk to friends who once defended the devil and now do not want to burn in hell.

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### BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCE

https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2015/03/150316_salud_memoria_ventajas_olvidar_empatizar_amv
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesia_disociativa

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