[ Forget/Remember ]

Forgetting is a skill, as much as remembering is.  If we never forgot anything, our brains would become overloaded.  This applies to mere mortals of average memory skills.  Remembering the combination to our high school locker isn’t much use now.

The brain is a fascinating thing.  What we pay attention to, we tend to remember, though we do forget important things.

So the ability to forget the right things is a skill.  I marvel at my ability to remember the lyrics to countless 80s pop songs, but had to look up the formula for calculating the volume of a cylinder.