Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
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.
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.
Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
Memory is the thing you forget with.
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