Forget me not
A while ago I read the anti-war novel All Quiet On The Western Front. It's about the perils of war, faced by young Germans, during the first world war. The book touched on a phenomenon I found to be quite interesting. When the soldiers were stationed on the front lines and had to engage in trench warfare, their experiences tended to be horrific, to say the least. Then when they got rotated to other parts, where there was no conflict, they would simply forget all the horrific events they had just gone through. If what happened on the front lines, followed them immediately into the rest of the barracks, they would not be able to function in any other capacity. The ability to forget is one that is quite fascinating. It's as though the brain can delete certain bits of information, and continue as though nothing ever happened. The down side to it is that, it is not in our control as to what we can forget, or unfortunately how much we can forget. Imagine getting to for...