June 30th, 2003

Lost Memories

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Why do past memories have an uncanny ability to pop up when they are least wanted? The more we try to suppress the memories that we wish to avoid, the more they seem to pop up in Terminatoresque “I’ll be back” style. When we are convinced that finally its all history, they reveal themselves to you, creating turmoil and upsetting the balance of your relatively smooth life. All such memories need, is what we policy scientists, call a “triggering mechanism“.
Some obscure unrelated event(s) grabs that suppressed nerve ending and fires it instantly to let loose a deluge of emotions that you thoughthad left you forever. This happens in spite of the inherent awareness that the past can do nothing more than disturb your present and subsequent future.

You tend to perpetuate grave “injustice” to the ones in your life for whom those memories may be anathema, even though they never reveal that emotion. All this upheaval flashes in a matter of an instant, adding to the incessant quagmire of knowing what you want and what you are expected to want. It adds up incrementally to toss you back to square one, wiping off months or years of mental consolation. It finally leads to the omnipresent pessimistic question of “forget Y2K, Why to me?“. Tomorrow is another day…hopefully a sunny one.

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