eccothekitten ([info]eccothekitten) wrote,
@ 2007-05-02 18:09:00
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Current mood: indifferent
Current music:cinematic orchestra

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Sometimes I worry that memories are like antique matchsticks. You alight them in your mind, burn through the sulfur, experience the smell, the sound, the vivid flare of light.. and in seconds it's gone. Everytime you go back to it there's less and less to burn, until the fire gets down to your fingers, and all you remember is that it was a memory.

Especially those ones you dig up after years or even decades, the ones that have no pictures or artifacts to attatch themselves in the present and hold to your life.






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[info]gabrielnaylor
2007-05-02 10:57 pm UTC (link)
I love the metaphor! I think of memories like sculptor's clay. It is as if the event shapes the piece in this delicate, ornate image that is the closest to reality. And every time I take it in my hands to re experience the moment, the shape changes in my fingers. Somehow this pliable memory, while still rooted in the original form, is now changed. Manipulate it too much, and it bears no resemblance...

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[info]spud
2007-05-03 12:13 am UTC (link)

To me, they are more like roses. One blooms up in my mind and I savor the fragrance, color, and feel. It soon whithers and fades away. Yet, the bush still keeps producing new buds, and occasionally the same bud is reborn for me to savor again years down the road.

Ghads... that's way to poetic sounding for me. How about this:

Memories are potholes on the road of life. They get filled in now and then, but always wear back down again and catch your tire when you least expect it.

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[info]gabrielnaylor
2007-05-03 04:32 pm UTC (link)
nice :)

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