Forget Me Not |
Thursday Sep 20 2007
Memory is an interesting and strange phenomenon. I think (as most of us
do) that what I remember is more or less what happened. This came home
to me a number of years ago when I was dating a woman I had dated
twenty years previously and whom I had not seen in the intervening
period. We ‘connected’ like old friends and more or less fell into the
kind of comfortable conversation that old friends do. As we began to
recall our earlier relationship (which was pretty intense and lasted
for more than a year), our stories diverged immensely. I have always prided myself on my memory. Other than occasional
journaling and this blog, I have not spent a lot of time writing down
my thoughts or experiences. Now I wish I had kept a diary just for the
interest value it might have when comparing the written record with my
recollections.[Read More]
Written by Shae Hadden at Personal Empowerment
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