{"id":962,"date":"2003-11-28T22:30:22","date_gmt":"2003-11-28T22:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/11\/28\/as_we_may_think.html"},"modified":"2003-11-28T22:30:22","modified_gmt":"2003-11-28T22:30:22","slug":"as_we_may_think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/11\/28\/as_we_may_think.html","title":{"rendered":"as we may think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m re-reading &#8220;As We May Think&#8221; with a careful eye in preparation for exams and this time, a quote stuck with me that i think is really important given some conversations i&#8217;ve been having lately:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His excursions may be more enjoyable if he can reacquire the privilege of forgetting the manifold things he does not need to have immediately at hand, with some assurance that he can find them again if they prove important.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On one hand, this assumes that perfect memory is always valuable.  Perhaps &#8220;the privilege of forgetting&#8221; allows us to not face the nitemares or other elements of our imperfect lives that limit our ability to move forward and live.  I think of the people that i know who cannot forget the negative.  What would it be like to always have it on hand?  Would you always play it in a masochistic kind of way?  Perhaps forgetting certain things is the only way to evolve.<\/p>\n<p>I will never forget the monks who came to visit me when i was younger.  They spent a week building a beautiful work of sand art only to destroy it upon completion.  Sometimes, life is about the ephemeral process, not any precise moment or end result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m re-reading &#8220;As We May Think&#8221; with a careful eye in preparation for exams and this time, a quote stuck with me that i think is really important given some conversations i&#8217;ve been having lately: His excursions may be more enjoyable if he can reacquire the privilege of forgetting the manifold things he does not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}