"The extent of one's power to forget is the final measure of one's elasticity of spirit. If a man cannot forget well, he will never amount to much. Whether there be a Lethe gushing forth, I do not know; but this I know, that the art of forgetting can be developed. ...It is easy to see that most people have a very meager understanding of this art, for they ordinarily wish to forget only what is unpleasant, not what is pleasant. This betrays a complete one-sidedness."
--Kierkegaard, Either/Or [Bretall]

Unfortunately, contrary to this advice, I've spent much of my life obsessed with remembering too much.

This painting might serve as a reminder, but someone has been "borrowing" it for over a decade, and I've had no luck in getting it back from him.