Forgive and Forget? Not as Easy as it Sounds!

Is it really even possible to forgive AND forget? I understand that you can forgive anyone at any time that you want, but can you really forget what happened, or what caused you to have to forgive them in the first place?
With my own personal experiences, I have found it hard to do both actually. Forgiveness is something that comes from the heart, and generally takes a lot of help from a higher source. Depending on the degree of what a person has done or said to you, makes it all the more difficult to set it all aside and decide, "Enough is enough, it's time to let some stuff go!" Forgetting, now that is something that I can say is definitely not as easy as it sounds as my title indicates! Just because you have decided to forgive, doesn't necessarily mean that you will be able to forget what caused you pain in the first place.
Just recently, I decided to forgive everyone who had hurt me (mainly emotionally). It took a lot of time and prayer, but I was able to eventually forgive those who had tried to destroy me emotionally. Before I decided to do that, I can honestly say that all I saw was red when I thought of all of them, and all I wanted was revenge, not physical revenge, but emotional and mental... I wanted to make them all feel the way that they made me feel.
After careful thought and being smarter and stronger than I have ever been, I was able to decide that living a life that was full of hatred and revenge was not only unhealthy for me, but for my daughter as well. I don't need those people, I never did. I was honestly trying to make everyone happy, and in that process, I ended up unhappy and hurt. People who are caught up in trying to make other people's lives miserable are miserable themselves. Though I probably will never forget anything that caused me all of that pain, I can honestly say that when the moment came that I finally forgave them, the weight lifted off of my shoulders, and I felt as though nothing in the world was important except my daughter, and the few people who still stand beside me.