flawed memory
Nostalgia is memories minus the pain.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
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
... 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
Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.
Joan Didion • Blue Nights
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.