If memories were deletable
After posting my recent article of yesterday, if you haven't checked it, you can read it here and if you have read it before, you can read it again and drop a comment, Seriously, I still don't know how you all can just forget about someone so easily like they never existed, it's kind of hard for me, to the topic of the day.
Can you imagine yourself deleting some sad or bad memories that are giving you sleepless nights or hard times as you will just connect your head with a USB to your PC (personal computer) then you start playing all your memories from the day you open your eyes as a baby to the very day you are holding a mouse in your hands looking at it, I guess that it would have been great to access it and watch some good old memories of ours when we feel lonely and bored or you just need to be motivated, maybe you are trying to forget about some that have been a good memory of your past but suddenly stopped talking to you or they made you look like a fool for loving them, you can just access the memory data from your computer and delete it permanently from your head.
Though there might be some disadvantages to it, I believe that it might bring more good than harm.
The case of suicide will be less, the reason most people commit suicide it's because they are not able to live with the memory of losing a loved one, especially their partner, imagine dating someone for more than four years and everything was just going fine between the both of you, you and your partner had planned the name you will give to your kids and where your wedding will be and so on, then all of a sudden your partner just give you a big blow in your face by breaking heart, chai, that kind of thing can make someone run bad, you will just be there like you were never, lol.
I remember my first breakfast, it wasn’t so funny at all, I remember I sat like who a vegetable, just there looking like things without actually looking at them, I cried at nights and in my bathroom, I will be walking in the raining and hoping for it to wash my pains away, because it was just too much for me to handle, I couldn’t tell anyone because I feel like they are going to laugh at me, the breakfast she served me lasted for more than a week, before I started to recover from it.
If there was a way to delete the memories from my head, I don't think that I would be feeding the same breakfast for over a week plus, maybe immediately she breaks it to me that she can't continue again, I will just say okay, and then go home, connect my head to my personal computer or laptop and search for the memories I had with her, then delete it like she never even existed in my life.
Just like Men In Black, for those of us that haven't watched it, MIB (Men In Black) is a secret agent company that deals with aliens affairs, they control the activities on earth and make sure they are not seen by humans if eventually, someone suspects their activities and notices that aliens are living among us, they will bring out their Neuralyzer (ones you stare at the light, it will wipe your memory in a flash and you won't be able to remember anything at that moment.
Just like you said, having a photo/video access to our memories could be advantageous and disadvantageous as well. There are memories we would love to keep and keep playing them to bring back the love from the past, while there are some we can't just give a thought of because it damaging effect. But nevertheless, the videos and photos are accessible but only in our memory. Let's wait for technological advancement that will bring out a means to play them on Screen🤣. I once read something online that there's a means scientists have implemented to watch someone's dream he had🤔