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On MemoriesMemories Are Guideposts To Our Future
Memories let us evaluate the past while pointing to our future. Memories are more than just memory. Memories are past events recorded in our minds. Events that carry sights, smells, feelings, and thoughts that flesh out each memorized event. Because memories are events that can be relived at will, they can teach us the best methods of handling a particular situation. Memories are us in recognizable forms. How we deal with memories determines who and what we are. Memories are sterile, frozen slices of our selves available for safe, microscopic examination. Memories are a way of reliving life - safely. Reliving at a time and place of our choosing. Memories are the movie while each memory is but one frame within the movie. Each frame is sterile and detached. Frames carry the data. Memories translate each frame into physical and emotional reactions. Reactions that vary from joy to sadness, fear to expectations, sweaty palms to dry mouth. Reactions that define each past experience and provides a guide as to how a similar experience should be handled in the future. Memory is the tool we use to recall memories. Memory is only data. Memories are a group of data that are played back through the memory tool. Memory is a fact, a date, a name; memories are the effects and feeling generated as a memory is replayed like a movie in our mind. Memories are events given life by our memory. We can have memory without memories. We can even chose to forget memories but unless properly dealt with they lie buried and unconsciously affect our present actions. Memories are what we are made off; memories create us. Memories are life in action; memory is life without action. Memories become memory when they no longer stir our hearts and our minds. Memories tell us of our limitations, our struggles, our weaknesses in an active world. Memory is inert; memories are life. Memories tell us where to go; memory tells us how to get there. Both are needed and useful. Memories are what we recall in times of stress to endure, to overcome. Memories are our internal guru, out teacher. Memories have no expectations, no desire, no needs because the past is just that - past. The effects and demands of memories are caused by our present situation, our present expectations, and our projections of the current event into our future. That’s why dealing with memories creates our future. However, one problem with memories is our tendency to reshape them. We tend to blur the memories we don’t like and reshape those we do. We must be careful to remember accurately; otherwise, we remake our past while failing to learn its lessons. Memories reflect our self honesty. The more we lie to ourselves, the more unreliable our memories become. Memories and fantasies merge. Memories become our templates for future actions; the pattern of our life is based on memories. Memories console and comfort, punish and penalize. Memories can fertilize or stunt our personal growth. Memories have no intentions other than those we give them. What your memories do for you is up to you. Chose wisely. Author: Don Miller
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