GOOD MEMORY, BAD MEMORY
A bad memory can be very embarrassing… But, it could be a great blessing in life, too!
Just yesterday, I heard a young girl excitedly
approaching towards me. “Hi sir, how are you?” she exclaimed, “So nice to see
you.”
“I am good, thank you,” I reciprocated,
“How are you?”
“I hope, you remember me,” the girl
said.
Honestly, I did not.
“I am Sneha*, from last year’s batch,”
I was helped.
Last year had just gotten over… and,
imagine, what has happened to my memory!
Luckily, such things don’t happen to
me, always.
Age is, certainly, responsible for
our memory loss. But, more than that, I think, it is our cluttered mind… There
is so much on our minds, so much clutter, that there is hardly any space to
store in this human hard-disk…
Today, I was thinking… How could I
delete some data… and send to the junk mail box… or, delete it permanently, never
ever to be able to retrieve it…
Yes, I was, seriously, thinking about
it…
So, what should come on top of the
delete-list?
My hurt feelings and blame… my grievances
and grudges. The hard-disk has occupied so much space to store years and years
of this junk… It serves absolutely no good… a total waste and a real detractor…
Yes, it should go, and immediately.
“Do
you remember how I had hurt you?”
“No, I really don’t.”
“Do you have any grievances?”
“No, I don’t have any.”
“Do you hold any grudges against me?”
“None.”
The junk and cookies are gone… There
is so much free space, now, in the hard-disk…
My
today’s prayer:
“Dear God, please give me a very long
memory of peasant and peaceful events in my life… and, please, please give me
the shortest possible memory of all unpleasant and turbulent events. Amen.”
Yes, Amen.
*Name
is changed
GERALD D’CUNHA
Pic.: Anima D'Cunha
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