Ignorance

An insight into exile and memory...

"...For memory to function well, it needs constant practice: if recollections are not evoked again and again, in conversations with friends, they go.

For nostalgia does not heighten memory’s activity, it does not awaken recollections; it suffices unto itself, unto its own feelings, so fully absorbed is it by its suffering and nothing else..."

-Milan Kundera-

Having read Kundera's Ignorance, I've come to conclude an interesting essence of the story. That is: we don't share similar memories even if we are involved in the same events. We remember different things since each of us choose either to remember or to ignore certain aspects of events, scenes, and images. And thus it will affect our own memories...
We must admit that, at times, 'ignorance' seems easier and is more desired for us to embrace. Rather than embracing the whole facts themselves. At least, that's what i do...
Owing to the randomness of people's mind, it's disturbing to question the reason why people do that. Just ignore it...