Off The Cuff Writing Group.
8/1/2011 8:02:08 PM
Great session today at the writing group. Peter, our illustrious and very clever leader set the task and we each interpreted it our own way.
The idea started with time passing and recent memories fading, with ones from way back and those we’d rather forget, maintaining their presence.
Here is my contribution; short and to the point.
Why do those times we would like to forget, form the most prominent and detailed memories? And why do they provide us with the strongest emotions? It is very rare that a happy memory produces the depth of feeling a sad recollection can.
The birth of your child is an overwhelming and wonderful experience and whilst we may marvel at their achievements as they grow, we become used to that person existing; we love them and we ride the waves of emotion with them, but we cannot feel that same sense of wonderment that engulfed us that first time we held them. We simply remember that we felt that way.
Another question then: Why is it we can relive the torture of losing a loved one? We don’t only remember how it felt when they died, we feel the sorrow and the grief with great intensity, often for many years and though time is a great healer, too much of it encourages us to contemplate and degenerate into dark thoughts and depressing moments. Those memorable moments we would rather forget.