Inevitable Game for All Human Beings: Trying to Forget Painful Memories.

“It's hard to win, easy to lose
We play a game we cannot choose
As steady as a rocking horse, as subtle as a bruise.”

- from Oi Va Voi’s song titled “Waiting”

Sometimes forgetting painful memories is as important as remembering delightful memories. It helps us to focus on the present days, and not to be gloomy and desperate. For three reasons, Forgetting painful memories can possibly be adressed as the “game” that I play.

 First of all, above lyrics says that the “game” is “hard to win, easy to lose”. Forgetting painful memories might seem easy at the first glance, but it is not. Without notice, the painful memories come to our heart and make us regret what we have done in the past. It is hard to resist those emotions once we get caught up in the painful memories. It is more painful because those regrets not only come from our brain with rational thoughts, but also come from out heart with vague emotion. Thinking rationally, one should not be bothered about what happened in past, but because regret comes from heart, it isn’t easy to get rid of.

 Second, forgetting painful memories is something we cannot choose to play. It’s not something that one can get rid of anytime since it is a life-long game. It is like a destiny that is given to all human beings. We naturally recall the past unconsciously, and to omit painful memories has to be done consciously. Natural conflict between our consciousness and unconsciousness is what forgetting painful memories really is and forgetting painful memories is inevitable game.

 Third, forgetting painful memories is “as steady as a rocking horse, as subtle as a bruise.” By the meaning “as steady as a rocking horse”, forgetting painful memories is an endless game. There are times we fail to forget, and times we succeed to forget. But as a whole, it never ends. It stands at the same place all the time. Also, forgetting painful memories can be referred to as bruise in the way it harms people. A bruise is something that gives one the pain, but it is not as serious as a wound. It is same for forgetting too. When one loses this “game” (recalling painful memories), it is usually not so harmful to ruin one’s life. However, it still mentally disturbs one’s life, like a subtle bruise. In those ways, this “game” is “as steady as a rocking horse, as subtle as a bruise.”

 Will human be able to escape from losing this game ever? As long as humans have brain to store memories, forgetting desperate memories will remain as the life-long game. To sum up, for above reasons, forgetting desperate memories can be inferred as the "game" that the above lyric says.