Technology has now reached a point where one day, maybe the days of just reading and memorizing books will be over. Imagine, a small chip is implanted in your brain, and in an instant you can remember everything you read or hear exactly, as clear as a picture! After listening to it at first, I also felt like it was like magic. No failing in exams, no forgetting, no lost moments, just a perfect memory.
There are some moments in our lives that we want to remember for as long as we live, first love, first success, the smile of a loved one, or a big achievement in life. But in the same life, there are some moments that are forgotten like losing a loved one, memories of humiliation, or some mistakes that only make us sad when we remember them.
There are events in my own life that make my chest feel heavy when I remember them. Just think, if that chip in my brain brought me back to those painful moments over and over again, would I be able to live in peace? We often consider forgetting a weakness, but in fact it is a kind of natural defense mechanism. The mind wants us to gradually forget bad memories so that we can move forward. If we didn't forget, we might have been trapped in a web of painful memories.
I once met an old friend who, after an accident, started remembering everything as if his brain were a recording machine. At first, it seemed like an extraordinary ability, but later I saw that he couldn't forget even the smallest troubles, and it made his life unstable.
A chip in the brain means not only increasing memory, but also storing data. And in the world of technology, no data is 100% secure. What if someone hacks into that chip and steals your personal memories? Is it possible to protect the memories of a lifetime in the phone or social media that we take so much trouble to protect?
I think that the technology of increasing memory by implanting a chip in the brain has extraordinary potential for education, medicine, and even research. But its use in personal life should be very limited and controlled. Because the beauty of life is not only in remembering everything, but in the freedom to remember and forget.
Remembering everything means that every smile, every pain, every mistake in life is all gathered together like the pages of a book. But do we really have the mental strength to bear it? I don't think so. Sometimes forgetting is the biggest helper to our mental peace.