forgotten.
“ You f o r g e t all of it anyway
First, you forget everything you learned
the dates of the Hay-Herran Treaty
and the Pythagorean theorem
You especially forget everything you didn’t really learn
but just m e m o r i z e d the night before
You forget the names of all
but one or two of your teachers
and eventually you’ll forget those, too
You forget your junior year class schedule
and where you used to sit
and your best friend’s home phone number
and the l y r i c s to that song
you must have played a million times
for me it was something
by Simon & Garfunkel
Who knows what it will be for you?
And eventually
but s l o w l y , oh so slowly
you forget your h u m i l i a t i o n s
even the ones that seemed indelible
just f a d e away
You forget who was cool and who was not
who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not
who went to a good college
who threw the best parties
who could get you pot
you forget all of them
even the ones you said you l o v e d
and even the ones you actually did
they’re the last to go
And then once you’ve f o r g o t t e n enough
you love someone else. ”
- Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
(Credits to ab-ide)