Our Memories

     We all have those favorite moments in our lives that we like to recall from time to time and pause to remember how things used to be.  It may be that we can recall those moments with such clarity that it seems as if they only happened yesterday!  Then one day we “run into” that old buddy or classmate and we begin to reminisce with them about that favorite moment.  It’s nice because they too were part of that fond memory and we want to share it again together.

     However, when we begin to relate the recalled past, they keep interrupting and explaining to us how we have the whole story wrong!  It DIDN’T happen at that time of the year.  It WASN’T in that particular location that we recall!  Over and over they begin to tear apart the moment that we so much cherished that all of a sudden we realize that we don’t have any of the story remembered the way that they do!

    And this problem happens to different people in different ways.  With my wife, she remembers such great details when I can only remember a shadowy outline!  We can be sitting around and she thinks of a time that we had a meal at a restaurant.

     “Don’t you remember, honey?  We ate at Gino’s.  It was one month after you had proposed.  You were wearing those new blue slacks you had bought with that checked shirt that I loved so much.  I was wearing that tan skirt that you liked with a light brown peasant shirt.  That’s the night that you ordered us the veal parmesan so I could try it for the first time.”

     She is looking at me like “WHY are you not remembering this?”  And I come back with the comment:  “I kind of remember eating at Gino’s restaurant.”

     I guess that’s the way our memories function at times.  Then there are moments that I have in my mind that I can recall with great details.  But, now that I think about it:  I hope they really happened and are not just a smudge in my faulty memory!  However, I have to remember that we’re only human!!!

QUOTE TO CONSIDER

THOUGHTFUL GEM

"When all you have are your memories,

You'd better hope you've got them right."