If you have the chance, will you delete your memory?

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This is not a movie review, but i think the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is quite interesting in the sense that most of us can relate in such a way that there are times when we wish we can just put away the things that we want to forget, people we wish we never met, events we hoped never happened, put it all in a box and burn it...however, that is not how life operates...The movie starred Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet, a couple who underwent a sort of deleting each other's presence in their memory through a certain process...I won't go further as to why they want to do that... For those of you who are interested, here’s a pseudo-scientific explanation of how the memory erasing system works. Suppose you have painful memories with some person that you want to erase. You go to the scientist’s lab with all the things you have that are associated with that person: letters, photos, gifts etc. Then you are made to wear a helmet-like sensory device that tracks your brain activity. The technician holds each of the items in front of you, and you are to think about the memory you have with that item. This way, the brain areas associated with those memories are identified. Once they have finished making a ‘memory map’ of your brain, you are put to sleep (with the helmet on your head) and the technicians use a software to systematically erase those memories from your brain, just like how you delete files from your computer. Next morning when you wake up, you are a new person, with no painful, disgraceful, or horrifying memories related to that specific person or event. Now, my question: IF YOU HAVE THE CHANCE TO UNDERGO SUCH PROCEDURE WITHOUT HAVING ANY HEALTH HAZARD, WILL YOU GO FOR IT? Personally, I am tempted to say, yes, I want to erase some parts of my life in my memory, but I think, its wiser not to do that, 'coz if I do, I'll just live in a more confused world after it, 'coz those persons or events that I will erase, will just bother me, making me remember who they are...besides, a spotless mind, maybe spotless for a time, but as we continue to breathe and seize each day, we also encounter things that will be imprinted in that spotless mind, and then, what, if its hurts again, I'll go on deleting them? so my life will just be like a computer? reformat, and reformat? argh..virus is everywhere...so I guess instead of that deletion process, why not use an anti-virus? lol...seriously, I mean, we can't just put everything into a box and burn it pretend that it didnt happen, 'coz life is a cycle...life is life...i'll stop here before I completely lose making sense..and before I change my mind about that process.. lol