Be Good at Forgetting

Memory Can Be Friend or Foe

May your memories fade like the bokeh in this photograph | Photo by Megan Weidle on Scopio

Perfect recall exists. There are a few people who really just do remember it all. Everything. Every moment of their lives. They don’t need to keep an address book or store phone numbers on their phone. They simply remember it. It’s called having an eidetic memory.

Having an eidetic memory must be hell. Leaving aside confusing the memory of where you…