Remembering to Forget

I am super forgetful. Now, I’m not the most forgetful person I know, I leave that spot for our State Secretary (sorry Bailey). However, sometimes I think I need to be a little more forgetful. Not in the way of forgetting to do work, or forgetting important things like my family’s birthdays (because that would be a catastrophe), but forgetting the little things, the unimportant things, the hurtful things.

Think of something that is really bothering you or making you angry right now, something that has been weighing on you that you have no control over. Now forget it. Completely wipe that topic, issue or problem straight out of your mind. Why are we holding onto thoughts that provide us no positivity?

Now, I’m not saying to forget all the wrongs that have happened, sometimes we are justifiably hurt or mad and are allowed to hold onto those things. Hold your standards, as long as they aren’t hurting you. Though when we become angry or hurt over things that we have no control over and most likely will not be fixed, that’s when we begin to lose something much larger.

Why do we do this to ourselves? Our minds are very powerful things, but they also are not infinite. So, we must decide, what is worthy of taking up space in our minds? Is that anger truly worth the space we are giving it?

I want us to imagine our mind as a vast area of land or real estate, stretching as far as the eye can see. Fill it with all of your favorite things- video games, Raising Cane’s texas toast, an FFA jacket, you name it. Now, think back to that thing that made us angry or is bothering us, that just took up one portion of your land. And then another unimportant thing, and another, and another, until finally you only have one teeny tiny grass patch left for the important things, the things that truly matter. Don’t allow your mind to become so overwhelmed with the bad, that you leave no space for the good. It can be easy to focus on the things that kill the land in our minds, however when we are able to free our minds of those negatives, it leaves so much more room for positive, open growth.

Remember to forget sometimes,
Elizabeth