flawed memory
Memories can also be thought of as dreamlike. They’re more a romantic story than a faithful document of a life event. And there’s good content to be found in these dreamy recollections we have of past experiences.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. Which is why, even when we’ve experienced the same events as other individuals, we never constructed identical narratives: the criteria used for selecting moments were different f
... See moreTed Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
Exaggerations happen. Nostalgia’s tyranny enslaves the unguarded and turns wishful thinkers into romantics.
Corey Smith • A Still Life of Hope
Nostalgia is memories minus the pain.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Your memory often tweaks and adjusts the information it stores to make you look better, like a doting mother pointing out how wonderful her little Timmy was in the school play, even though little Timmy just stood there, picking his nose and dribbling.
Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.
Joan Didion • Blue Nights
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