Why Do People Forget?

For most people, it is extremely easy to forget things,people, situations...memories. They are able to let go easily and have no qualms about it. For me, it is the hardest thing for me to forget. I hate it. Those times when something triggers part of a memory and yet I can't remember it, since I forgot. I hate it. I love remembering things, since it makes me feel as if my life is fulfilled. I don't ever want to forget things.

The people in my life that enter it every year are important to me. No matter who it is, I don't want them to lose their place in my memory. It just makes me feel as if I have lost a part of myself when I forget someone. Therefore, when someone or something slips my memory, I feel very sad.

When people move on, it makes me feel sad. Sometimes, it makes me wonder why we have to move on and forget. But then I realize that although the answer is quite simple, the way to carry it out is not. Simply, that is life. But it is hard to have to go through,isn't it?

There was that quote, "I wonder what is harder. To leave behind or to be left behind?" I suppose that it can be applied here as well. What is harder, to forget or to be forgotten?