fool me once..period!

Our memory has this habit of fading over time. Surely, ' time heals' an oft stated and factually correct phenomenon,  has its genesis in the ability of human mind & heart to gradually fade memories with the passage of time.

But sometimes it makes me wonder if its always such a boon of nature? Evidence would suggest that one tends to make similar mistakes time and again, fall into similar traps time and again, it seems internalizing your learnings from life is a separate task , 'cause 'memories' they will just keep fading.


Sometimes, rather often I catch myself conveniently and surreptitiously trying to overlook or forget these lessons that life keeps teaching; in the freshness of their advent I tend to believe that a said event shall forever be engraved on my psyche as a red flag, a sign of where not to venture. 
But over time, I find myself strolling on the edge of the very precipice, I believed the damn red flag will keep me away from. 


Quite like a cur, who gets whacked each time it's tail curls, then whimpers and sulks for a while, then  nevertheless curls and whack again!

I wonder if this is an affliction of human kind or just one of the many follies and shortcomings of self, I seem to have an abundance of?

How do you experience, learn and then not forget? How do you will yourself to not make the same mistakes, fall into the same pits you managed to scrape out of?

fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice..shame on me; how do I ensure not falling into that second category, ever!