Bad Memories

What would you give to be able to forget all those bad memories?

I heard about this on the BBC New website here. Crazy isn’t it – a pill that makes you forget just like the wine that you can drink in ‘Ashes of Time’ that makes you forget, the notion of being able to ‘magic’ those bad thoughts and memories into nothing seem so appealing.

Maybe you would rather forget about a bad clothes choice, hairstyle or when you knew you wasted too much money on a pair of shoes. Or maybe the bad memory is because of something you did and it hurt someone or something you didn’t do. It might even be because something bad happened to you and you just want to forget about it.

Someone I knew a long time ago had something bad happened to them and even though she turned out pretty all right in psychological and physical terms she told me it was always at the back of her mind. In the press, you hear about other people who have been through what she has been through and it’s never a happy ending.

This type of question is right up there with what you would give for eternal life or what you would give to turn back time. By the sounds of it the drug is nowhere near perfect and in trying to wipe out bad memories you risk losing all your memories.

I know at least one person who would still like to try.