Memories…
Have you ever got lost in your house? Never, most would say. What if you have a house so big that it has hundreds of rooms? Maybe you may not find your bedroom one day. This is an extract from a psychologist in a drama, giving an instance of a forgotten memory. Our brain is like a house with hundreds of rooms, he said. Some of our memories may be stored in our brain but we may not be able to find them.
Memories… They are the most important part of a person’s life. In Heroes, there’s one who can manipulate memories and make you forget things. And he threatened someone to tell his secrets or to lose his memories of his family members. And he succeeded. I’m not surprised; I would give up anything to retain my memories of my loved ones. That has somehow made me realized how memories become part of our lives; our memories of others and others’ memories of us, without which our existence wouldn’t have meant anything.
Does anyone remember his Standard One classmate who sat beside him? (Or better still, keep in touch with him?) I definitely can’t, no matter how hard I try. Maybe he wasn’t my good friend then. But then, I can hardly recall any friends whom I’ve befriended in Standard One. So, human is a forgetful being after all. (Or is it just me?)
