If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap.
Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.
I've actually got quite a good memory. I've good recall. It's often things which other people might not notice.
My own memories are packed tightly away. I very rarely bring them out for viewing.
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces.
Memories are doing funny things to us.
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
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