The Night Tiger

by Yangsze Choo

But that’s the way people are, I think. We forget all the bad things in favor of what’s normal, what feels safe.

I’ve found this to be true in both good and bad ways. Yes, we do forget (perhaps we want to). There's a study that indicates people tend to forget their own transgressions, as apparently it’s no fun to recall the ways in which we’ve fallen short or have committed wrongs. But is forgetting a traumatic event that happens to you sometimes a mercy? Perhaps it depends on what we want to forget.