yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery

Have you ever seen 'Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind'? I've seen it four times now, and have finally figured out what to make of the whole thing. First of all, Kate Winslet potrays a perfect airy type girl that guys hate to love, or love to hate. She's all over the place and tries hard to act unique and be alternative. (This is not a critque on acting in this film, just a commentary on the characters in it). And last and least, she's 'that' girl who gets bored of a dude then dumps him. ( I have never EVER done this. I am a girl who plays no games, and just gets married already). Jim Carrey takes it deep with a meloncholy attitude that makes you want to dump him for her. Oh, in case you haven't had the viewing pleasure of this flick, it's simply about a Dr. who can perform a proceedure on your brain to erase a memory you personally choose to forget. Boy meets girl, relationship goes south, and both want the pain of each other to go away. They get thier minds re-booted so they won't have a memory of each other again. What if you could erase a bad memory from your head along with every thing and place that leads you back to it? Are our memories really that bad, that we would even consider such a thing? I can think of times when at the present moment I would have had my brain warped and re-wired to remember nothing of what had been. But now, from afar, it all makes sense why that had to happen to me. It's obvious that when there's all positive in your life, those bad memories make the good, really really good, and the present moment makes complete sense why you suffered so. But when it gets dark, there's a lot to be said about not wishing it away. It really comes down to the timeless question of 'fate'. Are our lives pre-mapped to be exactly what they have become? Or, as humans, are we smart enough to look at our sufferings to then create a positive? I think I believe in both. There has to be angels out there, guiding us to this place of happiness. But there is also this strong trait called responsibility, where we have been in complete control to choose where we breathe our air, the tastes in our mouth, the people in our hearts, and the memories we can move on from, to live in this gift called the present.