There’s that one important phone number that used to be embedded in your brain. Anytime anything happened, good or bad, that was the one number you would call. You would call it after you got a promotion. You’d call it when you were having a bad day. You’d call it when you needed help or wanted to watch a movie.
Over time, you wouldn’t even need to look in your contacts list anymore to dial it. You used that number so many times that you memorized it forwards and backwards.
Then suddenly, something happens. You start calling it less and less. The intervals between these calls get longer and longer. And one day, the calls cease altogether.
Months pass, or even years, and you realize that that number, that annoying number, is STILL embedded in your brain. So you try to drive it out, and the more you try to forget it, the more you remember it. It’s like playing The Game.
So you just go on with your life. More months and years pass.
And just when you least expect it, you try to remember that number…and what do you know? You can’t even remember if it started with 0917 or 0920 anymore.
Forgetting is the only feat that can only be achieved by the lack of trying.
