never become emotionally attached to man, woman, beast or child

Sally Mann Picnic 1992

As there is a geometry in space, so there is a psychology in time, in which the calculations of a plane psychology would no longer be accurate because we should not be taking account of Time and one of the forms that it assumes, forgetting—forgetting, the force of which I was beginning to feel and which is so powerful an instrument of adaptation to reality because it gradually destroys in us the surviving past which is in perpetual contradiction with it. (Proust, The Fugitive, 637)

When it comes down to forgetting versus a surviving past, I would take forgetting any day. I want to exist in a perpetual state of amnesia.