forgetting Options

[demolished]

Okay. Today, I came up to my teacher to give her my late assignment.

She asked me why I gave her right now.

I told her that I didn’t do it over the weekend because I totally forgot about it. Unusually, she didn’t write down the assignments on the board that the class needed to complete. Since I had a hearing disability, I’m not really good at catching information by verbal in air.

Then she says, "That was your choice not to do it".

I was confused; I didn’t really choose not to do it.
i know it's my mistake for not remembering it.

I always turned in every assignment.
For some reason, I didn’t turn in the assignment this time.

the question is: is forgetting a choice or not ?

[Gigi]

That's like the definition of lying. Lying isn't lying unless you KNOW that you're telling the person the wrong piece of information. When you knowingly tell an untrue statement, you're lying. But you could tell someone an untrue statement accidentally, and since you didn't know that you were lying, then you weren't.

Choosing to forget only means that you chose not to do it. Forgetting, by definition, is not a voluntary act. Forgetting always means that you meant to do something, but failed to do it. Choosing to forget means that you choose to fail to do something that you meant to do.

Wow. Confusing.