"All memories are traces of tears". I wonder if that is true. I am inclined to think so. The most memorable moments of your life, the ones you recall years later, are those moments that you recall with pleasure, ones that gave you happiness back then and still do or ones that you now recall with regret? Or are they moments that were the happiest in your life, but you just didn't know it then? In any case, any memory has pain - either the memory itself causes you pain or it causes you pain because those moments are now gone.
Nostalgia tinges the worst moments of our life with happiness and the happy moments with sadness - because to try to recall and relive those memories is to also acknowledge that you must be unhappy with your present.
Had dinner with my fastidiously neat cousin and recalled how as a teenager I'd downed too many beers and puked my guts out on his bed! And how he washed the blanket the same night after tucking me under a new one. Was that a good moment? Well, at least it is one that I can't forget.
ubergeek, the
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Happy or sad, the emotions don’t matter. I remember the moments by the intensity and strength of the emotions prevalent- anger, tears, embarrassment and tummy-butterflies, all receive equal importance in my memories.
Keep writing.
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