Painting over and over

My good friend Annabelle has this fantastic blog entry about repressing and releasing memories.

Funny how things have a way to remind us about old things that we forgot or tried to forget. At those moments, you have to make a conscious decision as to whether you want to remember, or whether you can release them out into the universe.

Just this weekend, I got an email remember from one of the sites of which I've been a member, and one for which I made one of my old relations to sign up. This site, Care2, has excellent e-greetings cards, which is why I used to use it in the first place. Now, suddenly they started a social networking site ala Facebook and Myspace. So the newly revamped site reminded me that March 23 is the birthday of this relation.

What gave me pause was that I somehow, in one of my reincarnations, have managed to shed this person from my life, even though this would have been unimaginable back in 1999. I cried many a nights until I met someone finally.

This also triggered another memory of this hot latin fling I had with one of Piali's friends, whose birthday is Mar 21. After these two experiences, I've sworn off even being near Aries people. Somehow earth and air signs are not meant to mingle, I suppose.

I paused for a moment to think whether I want to send a message, wish happy birthday and reconnect. After 24 hour of thinking, I simply deleted the email and unsubscribed from the notification services.

Sometimes, it's better to let sleeping dogs lie.