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Speaker 1: Forget it? Why worry about the past? Hugging all sorrows

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to your bosom? What to do with them? Don't poison

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your life? Pain brings experience, learning your lesson how to

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get rid of a gloomy thought, throw it away, forget it.

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One can often get some useful lesson from the slang

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and current phrases of the day. There is something particularly

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attractive to me about slang and the pat phrases that

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are passed along from one to another on the streets.

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Many of these phrases condense, in a few words, certain

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practical truths that one could use as a basis for

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a sermon, anesthy or even a book. They are the

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practical experiences of the people, crystallized in a catchy phrase.

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The phrase which I hear so frequently on the street,

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just now, forget it seems to me to contain much

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practical common sense, and if people would put it into practice,

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there would be many more brighter faces, many more lighter hearts.

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What's the use, anyhow, of carrying around a long face

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or a heavy heart just because away back in the

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past something went wrong with us, or even if we

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went wrong ourselves, and most of us have I have.

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I know, what's the use forget it? Of course, you

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will not forget the experiences of the past, and you

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do not want to. That's one of the things we

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are living for gaining experience. When we have once really

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learned a through experience, we never forget it. It is

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a part of us. But why bother about the memory

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of the pain, the mortification, the slip up, the heart ache,

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the wounded feelings, the misplaced confidence, the thing done in

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the wrong way, the chance you let slip by, the folly,

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the sin, the misery that might have bins and all

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the rest. Oh, what's the use forget it? I say,

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forget it? If one is to worry about all the

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things that went wrong, all the things that didn't come

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right in the past. If he has to take out

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each memory every day, and, after carefully duzzing it off,

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fondle and caress it and hug it close to his bosom.

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If he has to raise up these ghosts from the past,

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these phantoms of long ago, these musty eating things, why

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he will have no time for the affairs of to day.

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He will lose all the joy of the now, or

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the pleasure of life, of the moment, all the interest

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in the things of to day. Oh, dear dear, what's

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the use forget it? Forget it? Some people are not

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happy unless they have some old, faded sorrow hunged up

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close to their bosoms, And they feel guilty if they

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happen to smile and forget the old thing for even

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a moment. Oh, how they do gloat over their own

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vamped unhappiness. How they enjoy the relieving of the pains

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and sorrows, mistakes and ignorance of years gone by. How

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they love to hold the fox to their sides and

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let it eat out their heart. These people are really

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happy in the unhappiness, and life would not be worth

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living if they were deprived of their pet sorrows. Of course,

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if these people are really happy because they are unhappy,

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I have no objection. Every man or woman has the

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right to pursue happiness in his or her own way,

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and I suppose that that is as good a way

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as any other, and I should not find fault if

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somebody else's way is different from mine. But doesn't it

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seem like a pity to see people wasting their time, energy, thoughts,

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and life on these old sorrows? If they must think

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of the past. Why not think of the bright things

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that came into their lives, and instead of the dark ones,

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think of the moments of happiness, not of the moments

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of sorrow. Don't make a tomb of your mind. Don't

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let that particular painful experience poison your present life. Don't

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do it. Don't do it. What's the use forget it?

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Every bit of pain that has happened you has brought

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its experience to you. You are better, wiser, and broader

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for it. Look at it in that way, and you

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will cease to mourn and wail and wring your hands

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over the fact that in the past you have done

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those things which you ought not to have done, and

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have left undone those things which you ought to have done. Nonsense.

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You have gained the experience and know better now. If

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you were placed back in the same old position and

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lacked the experience that you have gained by just such things,

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you would do the same old thing over again, and

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in the same old way. You couldn't help it, because

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you would be the same old person. What you would

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like to do would be to be placed back in

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the same position and face the same old temptation or

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problem but you would want to take with you the

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experience you have gained by your former mistake. You want

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the cake and the penny at the same time. You

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want the experience without the pain. Oh, yes you do, Now,

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that's just what you want. I have been through it

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myself and know all about it. You have gained the experience.

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Be satisfied. Someday you will need that experience and will

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be glad you have it, and will see that it

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was worth all you have paid for it. No, you

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don't see it that way. Well, maybe you haven't had

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enough of it, haven't learned your lesson yet. If that

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is the case, some of these days the law will

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drop you back into the pot until you're well done.

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The law is not satisfied with underdone people. Oh you're

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making a big mistake. Forget it. Forget it. The people

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who carry these old things around with them generally get

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themselves into the mental attitude that draws other things of

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the same sort to them. Misery likes company, and a

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miserable thought also likes companionship, and almost always manages to

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attract some other miserable thing to it to keep it

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from being lonesome. The only way to get rid of

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a thought of this kind is to forget it. Now.

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If you have some pet thing that is g knowing

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out your vitals, is corroding your heart, is poisoning your mind,

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take it out and look at it for the lost time.

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Give it a lost, long, lingering gaze, Kiss it goodbye,

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Weep over it if you like, for this is the

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last you will see of it. Then throw open the

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window of your mind and pitch it out into the

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outer darkness. Forget it.