During one of my usual zone-out moments on the long ride to school, I thought about a certain memory. Two years ago, I went back to a place I havn't been to for about ten years. As I walked the same path I did ten years ago, the feeling was incredible. So much has changed, yet some things were still the same. It still baffles me how I still remember this trip in so much detail. It seemed like I was just there yesterday and not two years ago. Time passes by so fast, too fast. Some things we won't even remember one week from when it happened, but some will linger with us forever. Like Jason's memory of the massacre, it will be something he will never forget. The human mind is so intriguing, it can retain so much yet let other things quietly slip away. But I think we never actually "forget" something. It just takes a particular object or event that will remind us of it again. Ironically, just as how we can remember a certain good memory so well, a bad memory may sometimes never be forgotten. There will always be a part of Jason's that's hollow. This was the part that cheryl and the massacre took from him, leaving him incomplete for the rest of his life.
-Cindy Chu
2 comments:
I agree in the sense that I think our experiences are always with us to help matures us and help us grow. However, I do not think that every memory that I have is will become a concsious awareness with any kind of cue from the environment. I think that the point of letting some things retract to the most distant caves in our mind is because we do not need them anymore. We have taken all the lessons and morals out of that that have helped us evolve and the little details are able to disappear. It's like when people ask themselves "Why is this happening to me?" I believe that situations and hardships happen for a reason which is to help us grow as individuals.
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