Sunday, 29 April 2012

Memories

Memories? What are they....and why do they exist? And if they do then why do they have to remain?
Why cant they be those scraps n pieces which comes n goes away with one blow of air.
Categorization of memories could also vary. For instance, what I am writing now would soon become a memory. What I did an hour before has already gone back to the memory box. What I cooked in the afternoon soon turned out to be memory continuation.
I often wonder why do we memories? And what do we memories? Childhood memorization of "abcd" to adolescent memorization of multiplication tables, teenage memorization of "h20" formation to trigonometry formulas, 20s memorization of job interview questions to memorization of bank account credits, memorization of “what to do for kids” to memorization of “early retirement plans" etc seems never ending. Some might argue about memorization of “ what to do for kids”, retirement plans etc....dude what is wrong with you? Well, its all a part of memory. You think because you inculcated something from past which eventually became memories.
Carrying forward, as I was talking about memorization of things, man, kudos to human mind!! We all can memorize so much and still have sustained, but apart from certain essential things, do we actually remember everything? Because seldom I come across something non-materialistic.
Do we memorize because we want to? Because we ought to? Or because we wish to? Well in my case I don’t know when was the last time I wished to memorize a thing because I wanted to!!
Everything around us is so materialistic.Half the time we students memories not to learn anything out of it but just to get staright ‘A's’ on our transcript. We slog our ass hard for years, learning and memorizing stuffs just to get that piece of sheet in our hand, called the "Graduation Certificate", which is believed to be the gateway to the professional world. But what remains unanswered is that half the thing we memories and learn during that time remains non-applicable so why the hell are we to do that memorizing thing? Materialism has its approach in every phase of life and one such major phase happens to be so called memory.
Memory remains!
Well someone said it right, everything comes with a package. Everything has its pros and cons. If they are good then how could the devil part its way from it! If its nostalgic for you then you wouldn’t argue it to be not agonizing and irritating and embarrassing at times. Certain memorize we want to jog about again and again but some never!!
So? Memory has its phase, which could be perceived differently by different people.
But before I pen down, guys, don’t you think at one point of time, irrespective of it being good bad or whatever, memories accumulate a whole lot of baggage which at one point of time seems would just burst out? Haha I know its funny but everything comes with a package.

Written in 2008.

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