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Make a story for the things you want to remember. Never make a story for the things you want to forget. Let those disappear with time. Your memories are a mix of fact and fiction. Your story about an experience overwrites your memory of the actual experience. So use this in your favor. Re-write your past. Embellish adventures. Disempower trauma. Re
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“if we cannot tell a story about what happened to us, nothing has happened to us.” ― James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games.
I'm realizing how terrible one's memory truly is. Without documenting life, it's painfully easy to forget so many important moments. This is important because we so often lean on other's memories/stories - autobiographie... See more
It is in the present moment that we begin to know ourselves. Joan Didion, a famous proponent of writing things down, began doing so at age five. She believed that notebooks were one of the best antidotes for a distracted world: “We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget w
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