
Still remember the water plum flower (also known as “Shui3Mei2″, Wrightia religiosa or water jasmine) that I told you previously? The plant produces seeds recently in our garden. If I am not mistaken, this is the second time I see the water plum seeds, it seldom produces seeds.
I have forgotten how it looked like during the first time because it was one or two decade ago. I cannot even remember when was it. But I have waited it for years. My blur memory about water plum seeds made me unsure that whether this plant got seed or not, until few days ago I discovered this inverted horn-shaped rows of seeds.

Multi-layer-petal Shui Mei.

Single-layer-petal Shui Mei.
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Forgetting and Remembering
Sometimes after we sensed something (through our eyes, ears, nose etc), the memories stay for our whole life and it get faded. But once we see it again, we can remember it quickly and our feeling on it will come again. Otherwise, I would not have waited for years to prove that this flower got seeds. No body ask me to wait, but I believe my internal memory (the eighth sense) make me to have a wish to see the seeds again.
For those of you who do not know about this flower, or never see this type of plant, you may ask what is so big deal about these seeds? For me, it is special because I have gone through the process of digging my memories, and given myself an answer. This is the most important part for me.
Believe me or not? Forgetting about something is more difficult than remembering. We learned our languages, we learned to ride bicycle, we learned to swim, and we also learned to drive, but we will not be able to forget it until the end of our lifes. Therefore, if you want to forget something, for example the person you hate, the things that you do not like, what you need to do is do not remember it or burn it into your brain. Remove it from brain is more difficult than storing it into the brain. We are not able to format our memory like what we did to a computer harddisk drive. Our memory is like a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM, once burned, it will be permanently there, unless accident happen such as scratches and the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM develop bad sectors.
There are two methods to forget the things you do not want to remember, first never remember it at the very begining. Second, if it is very unfortunately that you have already remembered it, what you need to do is do not think about it at all. Just like if you have a CD or DVD that you don’t like, you won’t put it in your computer or DVD player. Everytime it comes to your mind, you have the right to chase it away then you can think about some other things.
Do not remember something that you want to forget later. It’s hard, but we should try.













