“Life is not what One lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it”

The bad thing is that a lot of fantastic memories of our life, especially of our childhood, are being buried deep in our memory and, over time, we have to discern whether it is a real experience, or an i maginary one. This makes us learn to differentiate between what makes us feel good and what makes us feel bad, and to always choose the path that leads us to feel better. Therefore, our memory is selective, and the learning we draw from our memories weighs more heavily than the memory itself. When we go to the cinema and the seats are not numbered, we look in our memory for the place in the room where we felt more comfortable watching the movie, but we do not remember every movie we’ve seen. We remember many things, and most of them will come back to memory when facing a concrete situation. If so, it would be very difficult for us to make decisions quickly, and we would live with an emotional “backpack” too complex to be operative. Remembering everything is impossible, since our memory does not work like an infinite video camera. It is precisely these emotions that get us to learn from our experiences so that, in the future, we know how to make the decisions that will cause us a more pleasant emotional state. Those who come with more powerful emotions, fear, disgust, anger, sadness, nostalgia, happiness, etc., are the ones that last the most in our memory. A day with your parents in the flower market returns to your memory when you notice the smell of fresh flowers, o r when a perfume reminds you of a person very close to you in the past.Īll memories carry with them one or more associated emotions.

Surely it has happened to you that a certain smell evokes a specific moment of the past.

The first thing to keep in mind is that the most important part of a memory is the emotion or emotions it brings. The answer is no, but we can take measures so that when it comes the time to look back, we have as many memories as we can. We would be nothing without our memories but, is it possible to remember everything? Our memories are what we are, what makes us make the decisions we make, act as we act and love as we love.

We have relive images painful memories