The Habit of Forgetting

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DATE OF POSTING : 8 APRIL 2025

We forget too much. Not because we want to, but because it’s easier.

We forget the smell of old clothes kept in the back of the cupboard. The texture of a voice once familiar. We forget the way a parent touched our forehead after a fever, the way a friend once waited without checking the time.

Forgetting becomes a habit—easier than confronting what once mattered.

But here’s the strange thing—memory doesn’t really disappear. It hides. It resurfaces when we least expect: through a taste, a scent, a city we once passed through without understanding why it felt like home.

And then, suddenly, what was forgotten arrives unannounced. A photograph tucked in a book. A name whispered in a dream. A song from a radio we didn’t intend to listen to.

And we realise: forgetting is never permanent. It’s just memory in disguise.

RAJAT CHANDRA SARMAH
GUWAHATI, ASSAM, INDIA

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