Daily Jots

Thought of the Day:
“It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.”
Barbara Kingsolver

Thinking Outside of the Box:
I didn’t think too much of it at the time, but now something that happened to me a few years ago is one of the most precious memories that I have.  I think that is what Barbara Kingsolver was getting at when she wrote that line above.  It isn’t those things that make us say to ourselves, “I can’t ever forget this moment.”  The things that make up our memory are the things that, at the time, seemed inconsequential or perhaps even routine.

That inconsequential moment is something I now think about every day.  I have collections of those routine little things that happened once-upon-a-time and those are the core of my memory.  I don’t think it helps to try to build our memories for the future during the time, the present, while they are happening.  What we remember, we remember.  Out minds calculate the importance of events or feelings in ways we can’t understand, I believe, and it tends to remember whatever it needs to.

Treasure your memories and realize each day, your inconsequential and routine acts, will be the memories of tomorrow.  You can’t predict which ones are the memorable ones so just live each moment as it comes.  Rest assured, your mind knows just exactly what to remember as it builds its scrapbook.

Some Last Thoughts:
“God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.”
J. M. Barrie

“It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment – but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?”
Lord Byron

“It is sad how one dark moment can live forever burned in the back of ones mind.”
Anonymous

“We do not remember days; we remember moments.”
Cesare Pavese

“In memory everything seems to happen to music.”
Tennessee Williams

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