Forget You!

By Larry Cochran

As always, it is important to reflect on the many things that help us maintain a steady path toward success. It is important to look at everything that has happened to us through a positive perspective.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jan 10, 2017
• ISBN: 9781365670633

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Forget You!

Forget You!

Yeah, skip you, forget you, and blank you.

Photo of Jim Carrey playing a character in the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

By Larry A. Cochran

Forget You!

Copyright © 2016 by Larry A. Cochran

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from the author.

ISBN978-1-365-67063-3

Printed in USA by Lulu Books

Introduction

I want you out of my life, now.

I can’t stand the things that you have done to me.

If it were not for you in my life…………………

I wish I could go back in time and erase you from my life.

It’s your fault things turned out this way

These are some of the things that we say to ourselves when we encounter people, places, circumstances that do not agree with what we desire or hoped to have happened. I no longer think of these gestures as bad things when it comes to success and failure. I think that they are natural, but they also have to be aimed at the correct targets. The real dilemma is not having the thought of erasing a bad memory, person, or event; it is in doing so without having the right motive internally. What if we are actually the thing that needed to be erased and not them? What if we are what we hate the most?

I was watching one of my favorite movies a while back, it is called Roots: The Next Generation. In one scene, Simon Haley was going off to fight in the First World War; he was spending his last night with Bertha Palmer, his future wife. He said that he wanted to tell her everything was going to be alright but he could not. She responded with something that I believe to be the reality of most people’s inner being. She said tell me lies, tell me it’s going to be alright, tell me lies. In the whole scheme of things, we do not want to be told the truth, we would rather live in fantasy. I know because it is the only reason why we are so enamored by television. The ability to escape reality is very easy when a television is near and we can learn to tune everything and everyone else out. I have done it. The sad thing that we face today is the onslaught of so-called reality television. The reality television show is supposed to be an open look into what is really happening in the lives of people in any given situation. Some reality shows are about survival of the fittest. Some reality shows are about who is the strongest gladiator. Some reality shows are simply about creating dramatic situations and getting dramatic responses.

I bring up the reality television because it has come to alter how we respond to one another in a very unhealthy way. If you couple the onslaught of reality shows with the increased use of social media, you find