A town, or place, we once lived in, for example. We may have spent years there, and had ample vivid experiences there, but to remember those experiences years later proves impossible.
Our mental librarian, because we've not used these 'books' for so long, decides to file those memories away into the rarely visited section of our minds, and so we find it hard to recall anything but the sketchy outlines of our life back then.
We also are prone to not remembering the events of a situation, exactly how they happened, our sub-conscious choosing instead to re-write those events how it wanted them to pan out, to perhaps wallpaper over painful emotions and memories. We have regrets associated with these particular events, perhaps, and when these memories flare up, from time to time, we feel the regret or the sadness we now have for not experiencing what we really want to do at those points in our lives. There appears no rhyme or reason for this, to the conscious mind. We are, more often than not, left feeling a little irritated by these memories rising to the surface once more.
Perhaps these thoughts are not meant to be forgotten? Perhaps that are actually reminders of the lessons we are meant to learn here on earth? Our growth process works a little like a muscle group during a training exercise. The muscle has to be torn, in order to grow back bigger. The same might be the case with our spiritual growth process? 'No pain, no gain' they say' ... the memories we forget are perhaps 'assimilated' meaning they are filed away or overwritten, because we no longer need them. Only the summary sheet remains. Whereas, those painful regrets keep coming to the surface because there is still something to be learnt from them.
