forget

The day they spent, exhausted together on the crossroads of here and gone, is the kind of convergence they make movies about, so we forget it really happened.

I won’t forget such cruelty, but in my struggle to stay engaged, I will seek out humor as needed.

Now, with smartphones and a nearly limitless storage supply, Mayer-Schönberger says it takes much “more time and effort” to simply forget.

But not knowing when these memory prompts are going to appear in front of us can hamper our ability to forget.

“Our brain is designed to forget, and with good reason,” he says.