You know how you sometimes have those cringy memories of dumb stuff you said or did in middle school

[Leucosticte]

I think the reason why those memories keep coming to mind is just to serve as a humblebrag where you can be like, "I'm such an idiot" but the only supporting evidence for that is stuff that you know doesn't actually matter.

 

[Admin]

This is why electroconvulsive therapy sometimes work rather well, people forget about their past life that consisted mostly on failures and thus they are able to move on. Seizures tend to cause memory loss over time and this is in some ways a good thing.

You may think "knowing this is important" but usually you will do just fine in life if you forget it. It's mostly stuff such as passwords you need to remember assuming you have not written that down somewhere (in that case you may need to remember where).