Tactless

I just listened to something about the tragedy that happened 9 years ago about this time and I thought I'd be tactless.

We need to forget this.

I thought so at the time 9 years ago and apparently I haven't matured but I think that remembering dark events so that we can hunt down people and hate them and worry about our safety for the rest of our lives is insane.

Remembering people for horrible events and refusing or being unable to move past an event in an individual is a sign of mental illness. Sometimes granted we understand why an event lingers in memory such as murder rape or other traumatic events but the solution to the problems is to get people to move past and not linger on their hurt.

To remember tragedy as a nation seems to me and I will be blunt Fucking Retarded. It solves no problems and causes more issues when we try to avenge or redress the hurt as if there can be a fix to it. I believe that except in one case we've gotten the people responsible and If we focused on that then I might be fine. Instead however we continue practices that treat our own people as not trustworthy and cause issues internationally.

I recognize the need for outlet of emotion. But phrases like never forget piss me off. The type of thinking that has to remember all the old wounds and everything that has ever happened is the reason we can't have peace in the middle east. Nobody can be the bigger nation and forgive.

Constructive thought don't start searching for a people to blame and hallowed ground to bar others off of . Heroism remembered is one thing but we don't remember heroism we remember the pain. Forget it.