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holiday (profile) wrote,
on 2-7-2003 at 11:37pm
I've been contemplating this for a very long time...What mike was talking about with memories reminded me of it.
There was a poem when we read "A Seperate Peace".
I can't really remember it, but i think it mentioned something like, "nothing stays, not in murder, nor death..."
i don't remember, something like that. But i remember telling Miller that memories do stay.
And I started thinking, but what if there's a time when memories don't stay.
What about all the trauma victims who've lost part of their memory.
That'd be terrible. I was thinking about this for a very long time. There aren't any pictures for most of those times, how are you supposed to remember it if your memory is gone forever. But I think that nothing is fully lost. What if you've met someone who's changed your life somehow. Then you lost part of your memory. If you were to pass that person on the street do you think that you'd remember them at all? Even the slightest bit? Wouldn't that be terrible if you couldn't?
Well, now that i think of it, some people don't even remember who they are...that's terrible. :-( But i think that you'd have at least...something left...hopefully.
But i couldn't talk unless i was in that position.
And what if, even worse, you met someone you loved and they died, but you've lost all memory...
That contradicts my statement above of how "even in death there are always memories."
If a person dies, their memories live on in other people, but what if those memories that were only shared with one person..were all of a sudden, gone. For who knows how long, forever?
Gosh. I have either completed one or both of the following:
-confusing myself
or
-confusing you

well. i'm sorry if i have, i've just been thinking about it.
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Atman

02-08-03 12:20am

Wow, thats pretty deep. I never thought of it that way before...I always assumed I would have my memories, no matter what, but, imagine if you lost all of it?

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spud

02-08-03 10:14pm

wow.
i'm definitely not confused.

but that gets down to personal beliefs in afterlife, and reincarnation, and whatnot. and if you just stop existing, and it makes no difference.

but the tricky part is that you can't find out what happens until you've died.

you've always amazed me.

before i really met you, you seemed... how to word this nicely... flighty.
just kinda ditsy.

but that's not the case at all.

you're a deep and well centered/balanced soul.

it's quite refreshing to see.

and always helps me keep my prejudices in check.

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