the night i slept beside my aunt.
We’re told that as we age, we remember less and less. The details fade, and all that’s left is the emotion of a given memory. Yet, should an event lack the lingering emotions tied with it…it will simply slip into the abyss, lost in the infinite synapses of our brain.
Of course memories an also be re-written. If we retrieve a story enough times, aided with the supplementation of how others remember the events, you too will begin to shape your own memory—perhaps even mistakenly remember the inexperienced.
Science tells us that few memories are attainable before the age of three for most children. Yet, as adults, due to the manifesting of termed “childhood amnesia,” memories before the age of seven are scarce.
However, it is argued that if a circumstance calls for a great level of emotional response, those memories are attainable from even before our seventh year.
~I was barely two and a half at the time. It was the early evening and my parents packed a bag for me. We drove to my aunts house. My parents left. I ate dinner with my aunt and uncle and my cousin. At bedtime I stood in the hallway as I waited for her to finish brushing her teeth. I followed her to her bedroom and saw the mattress she had set up for me. I fell asleep on the floor beside her own bed~
You may be thinking to yourself…why would a memory of such little significance still be relevant 16 years later? The answer is simple. The memory has remained due to the rush of emotions it encompassed.
The night that I slept on the floor beside my aunt was the night my baby brother was born.
Of course memories an also be re-written. If we retrieve a story enough times, aided with the supplementation of how others remember the events, you too will begin to shape your own memory—perhaps even mistakenly remember the inexperienced.
Science tells us that few memories are attainable before the age of three for most children. Yet, as adults, due to the manifesting of termed “childhood amnesia,” memories before the age of seven are scarce.
However, it is argued that if a circumstance calls for a great level of emotional response, those memories are attainable from even before our seventh year.
~I was barely two and a half at the time. It was the early evening and my parents packed a bag for me. We drove to my aunts house. My parents left. I ate dinner with my aunt and uncle and my cousin. At bedtime I stood in the hallway as I waited for her to finish brushing her teeth. I followed her to her bedroom and saw the mattress she had set up for me. I fell asleep on the floor beside her own bed~
You may be thinking to yourself…why would a memory of such little significance still be relevant 16 years later? The answer is simple. The memory has remained due to the rush of emotions it encompassed.
The night that I slept on the floor beside my aunt was the night my baby brother was born.