How well do you remember the past?

[zreeds]

I remember specific things in my past and some things I have blocked out. but the things that I do remember, I can give an accurate account because I connect them with music. that how I recall most memories through music.

[o2bnocn]

@sak4kat: That sounds like a very interesting book, I might read it. Thanks for telling me about it.

[o2bnocn]

Thanks for the replies. I have been writing about some memories and helps me remember.

[moonangel]

the meds im on have taken away part of mine unfortunately pictures do help but memories are more fun when family gets together and talks about the past and we go to laughing and such very fun and it helps

[vickysue]

I find that the older i get the more i look back on the fun things that went on. I prefer to not think too much about the bad. I had a good childhood except the whippings with a belt and razor strap i got.  For no reason at all but my real father would be drunk. Life got better when mom married my stepdad an we moved.

[sherryinutah]

I remember as far back as 4 years old.  Some good memories and some that fall into the other category.  I've relived the negative stuff with a therapist and now I choose to focus on positive things that happened "back then", now and in the future.

 

[ttevis94]

I remember a little bit of the past. only little things. I have rarely been able to remember the past.

[Lindaroof]

I don't remember things like I used to, but that is a natural part of aging. I won't let myself get to worried about not remembering things that happened so long ago, I remember what is important to me. 

[Penwoir]

Since I had children, I've kept a memoire book which is not like a diary. Instead, I fill it out with little funny things that my children say, if we have a wonderful time out in the countryside I'll make a note of it. If my kids so something memorable, I write it down. With the best will in the world, I know if I don't write it down, I'll forget it and I want to remember as much as possible. When my 9 year old was 1, he put a little toy inside a roll of duck tape which was lying on the floor and when he picked up the duck take he expected the toy to come up with it, but of course it didn't, it stayed on the floor. So he went round the process again, putting the toy inside, picking up the duct tape and then looking confused. That's the kind of thing that goes into my memoire book.

[gramev64]

I do, and I remember Mom and Dad and all the times they came and helped my son and I when we would perform some music at the nursing homes.  My dad could really play the harmonica, wow!  Loved it!  I have video tapes of them, and it is so fun to watch them!

[msmoneybags48]

There are things in my past that I remember, and there are things in my past I would rather forget even existed.  I remember the bullying by schoolkids for three years, and then I moved to a new school, where I attended school with White children instead of Black children.  I want to forget being molested by my cousin's husband for two months because it took away my innocence.  I want to forget how it made me associate sex with love.  I want to forget my first marriage to a man 10 years my senior that I had only known a month and how I suffered abuse when he drank.  It made me choose to get to know a man a lot better.  He divorced me on my 23rd birthday and I have been divorced from him for 32 years.  I spent three years with my next husband and, although we went through the formalities of marriage, it ended up being a point in my life when I doubted if we were ever legally married because he lied a lot.  I spent 20 years with him and, when he decided he loved me, my love for him was no longer there.  I sent my only child away at the age of 14 and planned how I would get away from him, based on his behavior after she was gone.   He was separated from me for three years and, in that time, he found out that he had lost control of me during that hiatus.  I have been in Mississippi for 7 years, got a divorce pro se (he was absent and had not been with me in 11 years) and married my third husband, and we have been married 2 years.  I have run into the children that bullied me (they are all grown up); some were glad to see me and others were not, not that it matters.  I am 55 years old now, and I have learned one thing about the adversities of life; they serve to make you stronger.