Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Recently,I watched a 2004 movie ,Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,starring Jim Carrey,Kate Winslet & Kirsten Dunst.The movie deals with two separated couple (Winslet & Carrey ) and their urge to find peace out of loneliness and lack of love.For which they eventually delete memories from their respective mind related to each other, with the help of a doctor and his team. That worked for the movie and the actors were applaud with awards and nominations but i am not writing to review the movie but the subject the movie dealt with,'THE MEMORY ERASING'. It is impossible to delete someone from your memory unless you suffer from a serious brain damage,but what if in this era of advanced science and technology it become possible.

Not very long ago on a normal day one of my good friend and classmate,who is in a long term relationship with lots of up and down told me,If it is possible he would erase all memories of his lady love and live happily without her but breaking up with her , would make his life miserable with all the memories haunting him at the nights,days and all the time. I don't know what was wrong with them or how the things patched up but they are happy together till date.

Life,the collection of millions of experiences in form of memories. Some of them are good,some are bad,some are worth remembering lifetime ,some are insignificant. What would happen if we delete the bad part and keep the best parts only? Two types of situation may arise the good one are such as ,we will be confident very often,there will be no or less hate,violence,fraud,back stabbing etc ,the blood thirsty enemies will become best buddies. Let us take example of one of my friend at school who was really pissed off because a teacher used to punish him almost every day. For that reason he was lack on confidence most of time and scared, which lead him to make more mistakes and his relationship with that teacher never recovered. Just think if there happened to be something that would delete the memories related to that teacher then my friend would never loose his confidence and never be scared, never make more mistakes. Now comes the bad part of 'memory erasing',the bad memories are full of mistakes that we have done, and we learn from our mistakes. Yesterday another friend of mine lost his wallet and 2500 rupees in it,he lost it because he is careless with things,now that he lost a considerable amount of money he would take care of his things . But if he would erase the guilt part of loosing the sum he would further make such mistakes. Or the school friend of mine if he would delete the memories related to that teacher ,he would loose everything taught by that teacher.

If you would ask me if i would delete any of my memories related to something, I would never do that because I have learned a lot of things from my past and each and every significant people that I came across taught me something in good and bad form of memories. Because somebody has said ,"You can Erase someone from your mind,getting them out of you heart is another story".