"I Want TO Forget My Past" - Is It Possible?

I am not sure what exactly we mean when we say “I want to forget my past”. Everyone says this once in their lifetime for sure (now comon don’t lie). Are we trying to say we want to erase everything happened in our past, everyone we met, every moment we spend. If this is what it means then how can we do it? Isn’t it foolish? I thought about this when I said to one of my very very dear friend “I want to forget everything about my past. Why people have to judge me on my past? Why they have to look back into my past every single moment?” and he just said one thing which made me think about what I have just said to him. He said “If you want to forget past then dear I am part of your past. Forgetting your past means forgetting everyone whom you met in between.” I said “I didn’t mean that………” but unknowingly didn’t I mean that. So what is it? What we mean by this one particular sentence “I want to forget my past”

People do crazy things to forget their past. They start running or should I say hiding themselves from people they know (how? Change your contact number as many times as you can simple for them), change their locations whenever they want to “Forget their past and live new life” (I don’t understand how changing location makes any difference unless and until we don’t change the way we think and act?), give false information about themselves. Do they succeed? Can they erase it completely? When I put my mind over it (trust me nowadays I got lot of time to do this kind of weird stuff which for my own pleasure I call intellectual) I realized it’s not difficult but impossible to forget one’s past. What is possible though is to live with it and accept it. What we humans can do is to accept our mistakes and learn from them. This will make our lives simpler and beautiful. How far can we run from our past? World is round and small. We are bound to meet our past sooner or later. We need to think before acting on anything which might reduce the chances of our saying (you might have guessed it and I am sure your guess is right). Mind separates human being from other living creature so if we start respecting this beautiful organ of our body then we might learn to live with our past.

My verdict after thinking about “I………..” is ONE CAN NEVER RUN AWAY FROM PAST. IT’S IMPOSSIBLE. ONE SHOULD ACCEPT IT AND LIVE WITH IT GRACEFULLY AND WITH DIGNITY. LIKE YOUR FUTURE AND PRESENT YOUR PAST ALSO NEEDS RESPECT.

PS:- It’s all in the choices we make in our lives. Now you understand why I name my blog says www.importanceofchoices.blogspot.com and my posts says “Way Of Thinking”