MEMORIES!!

Memory - " the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences " - this is how the dictionary describes memory, among other definitions.

These can mean the best of things and the worst of things to a person, depending on what one remembers or rather commits to memory!! Very often people use the good ones to help them through situations - sticky ones as well as depressing ones. Experience is also in a way linked to memories.

Now the glitch comes when you tend to remember things without actually wanting to, or having to make an effort to. Then you sort of loose control over the things that keep comin back to you as flashes of the past events or "memories". Good things are always there to remember- that lovely holiday you took with your family, the awesome rainy day when you sat home and enjoyed waatching the world outside, the fun that you have had with your friends, the pranks that you pulled in school with your chuddy buddies!!!!

But then there is always the flip side to having a good memory, it tends to remember things that you wolud give anything to forget- the haunting memories of actions that you regret doing, things that make you feel stupid, embarassing situations etc. It is the worst thing when you have to face yourself and whe you have to think - "why the hell did i have to do this?" Very often it can drive you mad.

i have had this thing about myself. Ended up having a good memory only to discover that inspite of the fabulous advantages that it had, you end up having nightmares in the day when you suddenly outta the blue remember absurdly ghastly things that just want to make you disappear from the face of the planet.

but thats just me being my own old self. its amazing how even good things tend to have, or rather one seems to find something to complain about it too.

regards
sudhir poi.