Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it is, it will have its way.
A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.
Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it.
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
Memory is the thing you forget with.
Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next.