I’ve never really fought to hold onto the past. The present was always more interesting. New and totally unexplored space! There was only one direction to go if you let go of your past: the only way was forward. No past meant no preexisting you to be beholden to. What a thought. To be born totally new each moment.
Memory
Memory, The Watch on Your Wrist, and an Attic Full of Dusty Photos
It's only human to preserve past experiences as memory. That's how we learn. Or at least how we believe that we learn. But does memory actually inhibit us from continual learning? Do memories of the past sometimes cloud our vision of the present?
Pensive Nomad 