Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

I love the darkness,

It hides my pain.

I love the rain,

It washes away my tears.

-TheGoodGirl, 2014

You can erase someone from your mind

Getting them out of your heart is another story.

Is there a quick way to totally wipe someone out of your memory?

In the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet, someone invented a process of erasing all your memories of a certain person or relationship. And you’re good to go, no excess baggage, nothing at all.

It must be awesome to be able to do that. In time, really, you can forget a person, even the feeling. This is always possible. But I guess, what everyone wants is an instant eraser, one that can help you forget right away.

And since we’re on the subject, can I wish for the following, too?

1. An Instant Eraser – like a whiteboard eraser, or a delete button which wipes away all bad and painful memories. Picture the eraser tool in Paint or Photoshop...you can use this to get rid of the pain and all those experiences, feelings, images you want to delete from your memory...sort of a tool or instrument for selective amnesia. You just use the eraser and yes, no more tears.

2. Life remote control – I don’t know if Cae remembers this conversation years ago. "Mom, wouldn't it be nice if you have a life fast forwarder or a rewinder?" she asked. "What for?" I asked back. "So you can fast forward your life or rewind it according to your preference," she replied. I laughed, "Then there's no ending at all, Cae," I told her. "People will forever be fast forwarding and rewinding their lives."

Seriously, wouldn't it be great if you could go back to a certain period in your life or go forward to skip the parts you don't like - with the help of your very own remote control? If something sucks or you just can't wait for tomorrow, fast forward. If you want to go back to yesterday to undo or redo things, or to just relive good experiences, rewind. Well, the catch of course is that, there might be no ending to your story, as I've told Cae. "Today" may soon be extinct as there would only be yesterdays and tomorrows.

3. Duplicator - remember the movie Multiplicity (1996)?  This Duplicator can create another you or as many “you’s” as you can, so you could be in multiple places at one time. You can be at home and in the office at the same time. You can be with your kids and at the same time, be in another place. You can be in a romantic get-away with your partner with no worry that you're neglecting your job or household chores because you are also at the office or home. But this Duplicator should come out with the very same you, no "plus" or "minus", meaning your clone should be the exact you, unlike the ones in the movie when each duplicate of Michael Keaton turns out to be worse than the other, a poorer copy of the one before him.

4. Emotional Anesthesia – this can be brought about by a powerful gel or fluid or a pill which doesn’t have to be administered by a licensed anesthesiologist for you to be able to feel no pain; pain caused by a break-up, a separation, an unrequited love, anything that has anything to do with emotional pain. You just apply it or drink it (dosage depending on the seriousness of the situation), then you would feel no more pain. Somebody broke your heart? Someone made you a fool? Somebody didn’t love you back? Somebody doesn’t want you back? No problem! The pain will go away in no time, my dear.

Now who wants any of the above?

~TheGoodGirl