Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

“How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.”

 

For every memory savored there is one endured, and if the act of remembering is neither a blessing nor a curse — then how are we to know what to make of these fragments? To forget the past and not give a single thought to the future is but a fool’s errand, but the art of being present and ever accepting of that which finds us — is that the ultimate goal or just another spoke on the wheel of realization, turning over and over again?

 

Love finds us at many different stages in our lifetime, for some of us, we make the mistake of searching for wholeness in the other instead of finding it within ourselves first. The curse of moving forward is that we can only understand our actions by looking backwards, leaving an infinite number of possibilities in the time it takes for us to look forward again. In rumination, do we fall victim to our own patterns — a myriad of failed blueprints, schematics, and pathways created at too early an age to even realize?

 

Perhaps by living again for a second time, or rather by choosing to not forget that which ails us, and accepting the process of overcoming these blunders, do we achieve another chance at oneness, until we eventually get it right.

 

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