I Think I've Been Erased
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ~ sounds good to me. Eternal sunshine, spotless mind. Well, maybe not completely spotless. I've lost too much of it already. Just not the parts I want and need to be gone.
In the movie, Clementine and Joel have one another erased from their memories. Yeah, it's truly an option (in movie land). While you sleep you are hooked up to a computer where they scan your brain and seek out the memories and then, ZAP, they're gone. Yeah, it's a sort of brain damage. Far-fetched fantasy. Like they can make you stop loving someone? Forget the "in love" parts of the relationship. Make it all go back to the way it was before--unlike in the movie, without consequences and procedures going wrong.
I never got closure. It just happened so weirdly. Never went bad, never bent...just broke. The relationship is over. For him it's like it never even happened. He walks in and out of my life so casually now. Like there was never anything. Hey, you think he had me erased from his memory?
"Come back and make up a goodbye at least. Let's pretend we had one."
~Clementine - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
In the movie, Clementine and Joel have one another erased from their memories. Yeah, it's truly an option (in movie land). While you sleep you are hooked up to a computer where they scan your brain and seek out the memories and then, ZAP, they're gone. Yeah, it's a sort of brain damage. Far-fetched fantasy. Like they can make you stop loving someone? Forget the "in love" parts of the relationship. Make it all go back to the way it was before--unlike in the movie, without consequences and procedures going wrong.
I never got closure. It just happened so weirdly. Never went bad, never bent...just broke. The relationship is over. For him it's like it never even happened. He walks in and out of my life so casually now. Like there was never anything. Hey, you think he had me erased from his memory?
"Come back and make up a goodbye at least. Let's pretend we had one."
~Clementine - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
posted by Angie at 8:40 AM
1 Comments:
"Come back and make up a goodbye at least. Let's pretend we had one."
That is such a wonderful sentence. At the very least, the very minimum, at least say goodbye. Let there be a realization that "something" happened---maybe not the same something happened to each one the same way. But at the very basic level, a "thing" did happen and it deserves and needs to be recognized. Then say goodbye to it. Just do not ignore and/or deny it!
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