People Forget

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You know, it’s funny how we forget.

How when the mind looks back, all it wants to see is what was good.

People always say remember the good old days

But in reality, there never were any good old days.

We just remember what was good.

We forget that the past had just as much poison as our present

And let our hearts be the filter as the mind sifts away all that was wrong,

Because history is all the proof that we need to see

There has never been such a thing as “the good old days”.

People fight and covet, steal and murder

They make big mistakes, and then they make even bigger mistakes

They enjoy times of good peace in the midst of such stress.

Is that really any different from our world of today?

It’s just unfathomable, yet completely comprehensible, how we forget.

We forget the worst of the past in the midst of the worst of the present

We forget that the past had horrible things too

Because all we see is the discontent we are in at the moment.

But sometimes in that moment we do remember the worst of the past

And all at once our worlds can come crashing down because suddenly we realize

We built fake worlds of Past and Present, and in one step we found the flaw

So now they come crashing down.

You know, the mind has this filter

People are obsessed with pleasure.

It wants to remember what was good

Because deep down

We all have wished that only the good was reality.

In the quicksand of time

The forward march of seconds,

Our memories wind down

Our heartbeats slow

The mind forgets

All but a few.

We remember the good days

Because they were good days.

But I think that’s just a little sad.

How could we even fully know what is good

If bad never existed to show us?

It’s strange how people forget.