Memory Transport
I know I have a pretty good memory, but it can get pretty confusing when I can’t find the keys to the car. The irony of that is how good a memory I have of the first car my mother bought, or the Canada Mints I took out of my grandfathers shirt pocket when I was only two years old. They were pink mints by the way!
Not all memories are refreshing to bring back to life, but the good ones are often sparked by something that makes us feel a little nostalgic. In this case, one leads to another, and then another, and before you know it whole conversations are built around a simple memory.
“Your memory is the glue that binds your life together; everything you are today is becasue of your amazing memory. You are a data collecting being, and your memory is where your life is lived.”
Kevin Horsley
We do transport our memories, they become the stories we share with younger generations. They are also the spark that ignites great conversation with those our own age when we are having one of those “good old day’s,” moments.
I like to believe our memories do a pretty good job of protecting us from a lot of the things we can’t control. It seems like our memories have a mind and a voice of their own just like we do. They can take a situation and turn it into something capable of making us feel pretty good, if we let it.
I am also learning that we can become a lot more deliberate with how our memories come to life by slowing down and paying better attention to what is going on around us. Being mindful lets you shrink your world. When this happens there isn’t so much to remember, and in the process good choices make a lot of sense.
“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”
Lionel Hampton
Like everything else in life, our memory is not going to last forever. Personally, I hope my life and my memory decide to make an exit together. I hate to think of one without the other. But let’s not complicate things, take it from these last two quotes by this renowned world scholar;
“Don’t’ cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.“
Dr. Seuss
“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.”
Dr. Seuss
Talk soon…
G