Re: behind my shadow: Re: memories
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
「 what i have to say... 6:33 PM 」
When posed with the question that "if you could have your memories erased," would you actually say yes to it? "it would help you to be more efficient in the things that you do, because you would be without all those "excess baggage" that would actually hamper you from making the best out of who you are."

for me, although the thought of it would be tempting, but i would rather live a life of memorises than to do without them.

memories, no matter good or bad, have come to shape who you are. they are, to a certain degree, the things that make up the way that you behave towards certain matters and how you react to situations. for example, if you almost drowned when you were young, most of these people would grow up being afraid to go near swimming pools or the sea. i guess that when it comes to bad memories, the self naturally comes up with a certain self defense mechanism that reflects upon the memory itself.

of course, who does not wish to have those bad memories erased? by doing so, it would save so much trouble in having to overcome them. just at a touch of a button, they would all be gone, and the world would be so much of a better place.

this in itself speaks of a person who does not dare to face up to the problems that pop up in life. it is in overcoming these bad memories that one can be allowed to grow, allowed to be a stronger person in the end. that which does not kill you, can only make you stronger. being an overcomer rather than being overcome, is something that only with memories of past events, can such action be possible.

do not think that good memories would hence not lead to excess baggages. some people, being so caught up in the past, do not wish to move forward. these are people who keep on saying that 'it was much better in the older days' or things like ' i wish that things could be like last time'. it is time to wake up and see that things have indeed changed, it is no longer like that of the past. buildings have been demolished and new ones are come up. if one is so stuck up at, ' the past being better' the reality is that if one still stays in the past, you too will become history.

believe in creating something new today. memories are there to remind you of who you are. tap on those memories and build a better future with what you have in your hands now. of course there will be times where one hopes to go back to the past, but rememeber not too dwell too much upon it. for such memories are left in the past for a reason, so that one can go on with life and be stronger to face the greater challengers ahead.