must we learn to forget?

(Nietzsche, otaadohfl, 1)
we cannot learn to forget so we must always remain attached to the past.

life as a process of forgetting
(note to self: forgetting is a process of continual lack which must insert itself between metaphors)

...the animal lives unhistorically: for it goes into the present like a number without leaving a curious fraction; it does not know how to dissimulate, hides nothing, appears at every moment fully as what it is and so cannot but be honest.

we carry this weight of the past with us...and we are reminded when we see animal or child.
the child has no past to deny...

"it was", that remind him what his existence basically is--a never to be completed imperfect tense. And when death finally brings longed-for forgetfulness it also robs him of the present and of existence and impresses its seal on this which lives by denying itself, consuming itself, and contradicting itself.

...hapiness: being able to forget or, to express it in a more learned fashion, the capacity to live unhistorically while it endures. Whoever cannot settle on the threshold of the moment forgetful of the whole past, whoever is incapable of standing on a point like a goddess of victory without vertigo or fear, will never know what happiness is, and worse yet, will never do anything to make others happy.

...all acting requires forgetting...(otherwise we are released downstream through ever becoming, forced to remain from sleeping)

There is a degree of insomnia, of rumination, of historical sense which inujures every living thing and finally destroys it, be it a man, a people or a culture.

Two extremes: intolerance, and absolute tolerance, the latter in the form of a clear conscience.

be able to forget at the right time as well as remember at the righttime.
discern with strong instinctual feelings when there is need to experience historically and when unhistorically

The Unhistorical and the historical are equally necessary for the health of an individual, a people and a culture.