Day 19 - Gratitude (4 of 7)

Long term memories have an unlimited storage capability, according to what I have learned in Psychology this semester. Imagine all the the people, the places, the laughter, the pain, the struggles, the smell, the noises, the touch...all the memories stored in our head. Yet, I've also learned that we don't get to choose what we want to keep or rather what we don't want to keep. I've also learned the problem we have with memory, is not storing and keeping it, but retrieving the memory. Certain memories we can retrieve right away, some seems to be at the tip of our tongues, yet others, are triggered by cues of sound, sight, touch and smell. Today I imagine all of my memories floating around somewhere in my head...feeling a deep sense of gratitude for all the precious moments that remain and also for the moments that I've lost over the years, which my brain has some how deemed unworthy. With optimism, I imagine it is in the interest of making room for bigger and better memories to come...

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