Forget, forgetfulness as a stoic virtue:
So a really big idea of my mind right now is in terms of stoic ethics, almost like having some sort of historic operating system system.
So, one of the big ideas I have is, when it comes to ethics in the lake, it is actually not about like apologizing or feeling bad or regretting or whatever, but instead,… to forget.
Almost assume like it never happened?
And I think this is also another really big thing is that, regardless of how accurate you might want to try to portray your own personal worldview, or the way that you interpret events or things were happening… You actually may be wrong. And there’s actually no finger to point because no wrong was really done. Either to you or somebody else or whatever.
As a consequence, I think the best way to proceed is, just forget like anything happened. And this ends up becoming a very interesting strategy because, whenever, … you see someone which might inflame you … and you see them,,, rather than getting all angry or whatever, … just smile and pretend like nothing ever happened?
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Pretending like nothing ever happened,,, … how people respond?
… so to forget,,,, … … is the ultimate strategy? Not “forcing” yourself to forget or anything ?
So then what
… once you get that out of your mind,,, then better to focus on more personally interesting things to you?
How to forget
So I think this is $1 trillion question is that like, how do you even forget?
The only is, you cannot force yourself to forget something. Maybe you just gotta be so busy with other stuff that you don’t really care?
Another thought, perhaps then the secret is, actually, knowing that there is nothing for you to fear? Because I think typically whenever we were registered or what you said or what you did or whatever, the biggest thing that we concern ourselves with, is how this might cause harm to ourselves our family etc. But once you no longer fear nothing, then, the grand upside is, just realize there’s nothing for you to really concern yourself about.
Annoyance
Then I suppose now for me, the bigger issue I’ve been having more is kind of an annoyance? Like, when things don’t happen how I desire them, it could kind of keep me up at night because I’m using a lot of brainpower to try to mitigate the issue of my brain or trying to justify it to me or trying to do some sort of virtue philosophy?
And then it becomes insanely annoying to me because, I think about things that I don’t want to think about, but then again, maybe there is some sort of hidden upside to have to think about things that you don’t want to think about?