Freedom from ?

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom - Khalil Gibran

Events or experiences of everyday life, be it pleasant or unpleasant, but with special significance graduate to become memories. All along I have been of the opinion that these experiences play a major role in the grooming of a person and the development of his ideologies. I believed that a person is, what he is, largely due to the impact of certain events or experiences in one's life etched in his memory. But this line of the poet has made me think...........

If one has to forget all that made him or all that he identifies with, to achieve freedom, then what exactly is this freedom, what does the poet implicate?

What the poet means, is freedom from one's own self, freedom from the identity dreived from memories and experiences. I would certainly want that kind of freedom. The freedom of just "being" and not "being someone". Unfortunately it's not a question of choice, it's a way of life and surely not an easy one.

The words are so simple yet so intense.