{"id":668,"date":"2018-02-22T01:15:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T00:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicallradio.com\/articles\/?p=668"},"modified":"2022-03-25T23:41:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T22:41:07","slug":"%d1%85%d0%be%d0%bb%d0%be%d0%b3%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%bc%d0%b8-%d1%99%d1%83%d0%b1%d0%b0%d0%b2%d0%b8-%d0%b8-%d1%84%d0%bb%d0%b0%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%b8-%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%b4%d1%83%d1%88%d0%b8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicallradio.com\/articles\/en_US\/2018\/02\/22\/%d1%85%d0%be%d0%bb%d0%be%d0%b3%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%bc%d0%b8-%d1%99%d1%83%d0%b1%d0%b0%d0%b2%d0%b8-%d0%b8-%d1%84%d0%bb%d0%b0%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%b8-%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%b4%d1%83%d1%88%d0%b8\/","title":{"rendered":"Soul Bandages And The Holograms Of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

Valentine\u2019s day has passed and the gifts have been exchanged. Now it\u2019s up to love birds to care about each other and please one another for the next 364 days, regardless of the date. And what happens when the “Valentine\u2019s day\u2019\u2019 is over, that is – when your relationship breaks? Do you save your precious trinkets from short and long-termed relationships? Photos, objects, any kind of memories?<\/p>\n

Maybe you\u2019ve already thrown them away; maybe they are still somewhere stashed in the drawer or on a shelf; maybe they are collecting dust on your desk for years. Is it perhaps possible that they are a part of the setting in the Museum of broken relationships? Exposed for public eyes the “holograms of our emotions and memories now lead an independent life, while witnessing about the material and intangible heritage of broken relationships\u201d (this is how the authors of the exhibition, ex-partners, explained the art concept of the museum in Zagreb). What kind of a message would you leave on a museum wall for your ex-love?<\/p>\n

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We cannot put our exes in a museum, but sooner we start looking at them as exhibit pieces \u2013 the better. How does one free ones heart from the bitter memories and transit into the “sunny day without memory\u2019\u2019 with as little as possible damage? Because, “blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders\u2019\u2019, like Nietzsche said. But oblivion comes slowly, day by day, month, year\u2026 Or, could it be faster?<\/p>\n

It can. All you need to do is to pick up all the things that remind you of the one you love but would gladly like to forget and take them to your doctor\u2019s office. You will then share your love story with him followed by as much details as you can remember \u2013 vacations, romantic moments, arguments, laughs, long talks\u2026 Your personal confession will then become a “memory map\u2019\u2019.\u00a0 In the moment when the procedure of removing your memories starts, this map will guide the computer connected to your brain and direct the “path\u2019\u2019 it is “going along\u2019\u2019 and deleting. When you wake up, the memory of that particular person is gone, and you are ready for a fresh start. A dream scenario!<\/p>\n

\"\"Actually, this is the scenario of the movie “Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind\u2019\u2019. The true question is would this artificial way of forgetting really help us \u2018\u2019fix things\u2019\u2019 the second time and to make different choices? Or would going back right to the starting point and repeating the same mistakes turn out to be inevitable sooner or later. After all, we haven\u2019t really changed. Is it possible at all to “change your heart\u2019\u2019 like the song says?<\/p>\n

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Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind<\/p>\n