What an interesting word: FORGET...
We all think we know what the word means because it’s
one of the first words we learn as children, the latest in the first grade at
school…
But let’s have a look whether we truly grasp or even question
the meaning of a simple word like this
Old English forgietan "lose the power of recalling to the mind; fail to remember; neglect inadvertently," from for-, used here probably with privative force, "away, amiss, opposite" + gietan "to grasp" (see get). To "un-get," hence "to lose" from the mind. A common Germanic construction (compare Old Saxon fargetan, Old Frisian forjeta, Dutch vergeten, Old High German firgezzan, German vergessen "to forget"). The physical sense would be "to lose (one's) grip on" but that is not recorded in any historical Germanic language. Figurative sense of "lose care for" is from late 13c. Related: Forgetting; forgot; forgotten.
I have highlighted some interesting dimensions of the
words in the above definitions, and even by simply looking at the word and hearing
how it sounds, a fascinating insight opens up:
For-Get …it’s
there for the getting
So, when we think we forget something, has it magically
vanished? Does anything ever get lost? Or is our ‘forgetting’ purely consequential
– resulting from suppression, denial, ignorance, a lack of awareness?
To answer this question, it’s worth looking at the
antonym of the word FORGET, which is to REMEMBER.
Another simple word that we use automatically, but let’s
break it down:
Re-Member
…suddenly that which we had ‘forgotten’ becomes once
again a member of our mind, it’s ‘back’ in our awareness. It was ‘lost’ and now
it’s ‘found’, but did really ‘go’ anywhere?
Or is it that we had veiled its existence through
suppression, ignorance, denial, procrastination, and the like...
Have you ever considered re-calling and re-membering past
memories for instance? And have you done so with directive will and a clear mind?
Then you’d know that we are in fact always able to re-member everything that we
have been through, for it is part of us, we had made it a ‘member’ of ourselves
through our participation, whatever that participation might have looked like.
It’s interesting that the real meaning of the word
FORGET seems to be in reverse; where that which we ‘forgot’ is not truly lost,
on the contrary: it’s here for the getting – but do we get it?
So I wanted to share this little realization for anyone
interested in questioning the things we take for granted. And I’d really like
to commend to the interested reader to start investigating words, and
questioning the definitions we’d taken for granted.
In this context I’ll also refer to my previous blog
post 558 | Who We Are as Words – Taking back Authority where I elaborated on the relationship between Self-Authority
(being the author of oneself/one’s life/experience) and WORDS.
Even looking at the word AUTHORITY now, you can check
for yourself: what reaction/experiences come up within you in relation to this
word? Look at the connotations, associations, and energy movements that come up
when you read, hear or speak this word.
You could further look at what other words exist with
the same root /in the same category:
Authority, authoritative, author, authorize, unauthorized,
authorization, authorship, authoring, authentic, authenticity, authenticate…
Now have a look at each one
and you will find different energetic movements coming up within you –
indicating the charge (positive/negative) you had accepted the word to be
charged as, relating to other words as connotations or associations or to
memories from the past – all of which distort the word in its real meaning or
its potential as a living word.
From the mentioned post:
<<The negatively and positively charged energies that we experience and
leave ourselves to the mercy of – are all based on how WORDS as meanings are
perceived and interpreted, in short: reacted upon, and this reaction (mostly
automatic in nature itself) determines the relationships and associations we
create, and those are systematically either of superiority or inferiority. This
polarity can be looked at as the main polarity of the entire system (within and
without), where things and life/living are determined in terms of
superior/inferior, right/wrong, more/less, good/evil, etc.
When words are integrated and embodied with energetic polarity charges,
we’re looking at twofold consequences:
one is that we are no longer able to explore a word / an expression to its
full potential, and obviously we then also remain incapacitated from
understanding the pure definition of a word and looking at it for what it is.
Both these consequence dimensions involve bias and this places us in fact
into an inferior position compared to the utmost potential we could be living
if we were grounded in reality with a truly free spirit of mind>>
Now even the simple words ForGet and ReMember illustrate
this polarity – two sides of the same coin...
So why do we mostly only
see/perceive half the story...?!
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