If the universe is infinitely expanding, does that mean we are infinitely shrinking?
Everyone possesses blissful memories, which are the remedy for difficult times. Sometimes when the cogwheel of life squeaks, I reminisce about happy memories, as if they are vinyl waiting to be played. There is a very recent memory, I think it is perhaps the happiest memory I have, and it presents the most interesting concept which I ponder relentlessly.
It was the beginning of my senior year in high school; the end which brings a new start, like how the death of a star will fragment into materials necessary for the creation of a new star. My best friend Mia planned a road trip to an observatory park in the outskirts of Cleveland. For three hours we exchanged jokes and talked about everything in the car, minutes felt like seconds, in a
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Mia and I found a sizeable hill not far from the plaza, and we settled there with our eyes planted on the night sky.
Possibly it was the most beautiful sight I have ever witnessed. So beautiful, it felt like a gift from mother nature to mankind, so her children can have a source of inspiration. The Milkyway sat in the sky like a patch of soft silk, and all the stars that surrounded the Milky Way glistened like diamonds. It was truly a valuable sight, all the words in poetries, stories, movies, books and more about the galaxy came to life. Never have I been so enchanted.
I wondered, I dreamt and I pondered under the sky. Everything that has occurred, from the stirring of life under water millions of years ago to the one small step for mankind, has occurred on this tiny little rock floating in space with a velocity that could kill. Every mystical dream conceived, every heartbreak, every divine inspiration, every convenience of life we created belongs on the tiny blue marble suspended on a platform that is both mystical and
Memories from the past are shown throughout our environment. Sometimes, recalling memories from surroundings are simple, like looking into the eyes of your father. As people proceed in their lives, they encounter moments that affect them deeply. Sometimes, a discharge of memories occur, showing a recognition of righteousness in people. In a short story called “Aero Bars” by Robert Hilles, the narrator acknowledges his father’s love through recalling the past. By reminiscing memories of remarkable values or behaviours, one is able to develop a moral conscience.
Memories are a powerful force within people’s lives. They encourage, explain and expose the inner depths of an individual and the reason for who they are. Whether remembrances from past occurrences as children or teens or life altering decisions made regarding career and family, memories continue to have an influence on everyday life. They drive a person forward in current judgments and effects relationships with those surrounding. However, as time progresses memories alter. Either details are forgotten or translated differently than their original happening; memories are subjected to distortion. Consequently, the revision in which people remember recollections of their life’s history can influence the interpretation and their retellings. The correspondence between time and memories is often overlooked as parallel, but the interlocking connection contributes sustainably to everyday life, choices, behaviors and personal relationships. In her photographic series, Mutters Schuhe, Nina Röder explores how “subjectivity and perspective affect the retelling of memories” (Garrett, 2014) through the suggestion that emotions and time can trigger a rebirth of perspectives concerning memories.
Every act of remembering is also, intrinsically, an act of forgetting. Giving preference to particular details of an event lessens the immediacy of others. Thus, memory is its own, unique narrative culled from an almost endless sea of details present, and sometimes not present, in the original event. Memory is the past, reformulated and interpreted through the lens of the present (Huyssen 1995). When an event is commemorated through a physical act of memory, the narrowing of possible details becomes even more finely tuned, limited by the physical scope of possibilities for bodies in a three-dimensional space.
The Canterbury Tales can be understood as a Chaucerian satire according many readers. Chaucer sets out to deliberately upset the social order present at that time and to mock the faults present in the characters. Although he baffles about the complexity of the characters, Chaucer also praises and condemns characters for their unique qualities. Chaucer further gives us feedback of what actions the characters are taking in their lives. Many of the pilgrims are headed off to Canterbury, to worship the relics of Saint Thomas Becket. Thomas Becket was murdered by his friend King Henry and soon Canterbury became a pilgrimage site for people to pray for their healings. As for Chaucer, he observed both high and lower social class to get a
My elementary days were coming to an end. We were graduating soon. I discovered everything I wanted know from Annie. I was actually one of her best friend. Someone who would never betrayed her and sincerely congratulate her on every success. After graduation, she gave me a hug and told me she will miss me. She was the first person to hug me. Sadly, I never saw her
We need our memories to shape who we are. We need to soak up all the feelings from those memories whether good or bad. You need sadness to show you true happiness, you need sickness to know good health, you need absence to value presence, and you need dark to appreciate the light. Your life is a collection of your memories you carry with you to the present day and beyond. Your collection is entwined with others’ collections and so we all become interwoven and become what our memories make us,
The idea that our memories change the way on which we see the world and ultimately change reality is a difficult one to understand. An answer to this question depends on the way we define reality. If we define reality as objective- then it can not be altered by memories. However if we define reality as subjective, then, yes, our memories can affect our reality. But what do we mean by memories? What do we mean by relationship? What follows is an attempt to answer some of these questions, and see whether and how our memories affect our reality.
The harsh reality of life is explored through the power of memory which paves the path towards one’s
Being small is a blessing in disguise. As John Wooden once said, “It's not how big you are, it's how big you play” John won ten NCAA basketball championships in twelve years and is considered the best coach in NCAA basketball history. Because I am small and play sports, I have learned a very valuable lesson about hard work. I have never been tall or even average height. The average height is around 5’5” and I am 4’11” . I am at a bigger disadvantage in sports where the average height is 5’8”. This puts me at an extreme disadvantage. But out of this disadvantage I learned that if I work hard anything is possible.
Well it was on a beautiful windy Friday morning when my classmates decided to go to Monroe to have fun for senior skip day. We all met in Parkdale at the bank because it was quicker to go that way. Kytryck was the leader of the way because people said he knew how to get there. Being in that long line behind my classmates was irritating because they were all driving the same speed. It wouldn’t of been so bad if we wasn’t behind Sayvonne because he was study slamming on breaks and keeping us behind. Finally the day really started when everyone got to passing eachother.
Childhood memories linger in the back of people’s minds, until a sense of déjà vu lets
It hadn’t been more than a month or two after my first semester at college started. I was doing something on my laptop, sketching, coding, something or another. I looked down at my phone to see a message from one of my best friends, you all know him as OptionalSauce. He asked me about a game he recommended me a few months back, Katawa Shoujo. We messaged each other
“Oh well, memories...Yes, even remembering in itself is sad, yet how much more its object! Don 't let yourself in for things like that, it 's not for you and not for me. It only weakens one 's present position without strengthening the former one -- nothing is more obvious -- quite apart from the fact that the former one doesn 't need strengthening. Do you think I have no memories? Oh, ten for every one of yours...” (32)
There are three broad skill areas that are assessed in the questionnaire. The first is administrative skills, which are abilities that a leader needs in order to run an organization with the goal of carrying out the organization’s commitments and objectives (Northouse, p. 124). This can be viewed as behind-the-scenes work. Although the organization is working to achieve the goal, administrative skills are the fundamental entities that must be carried out if the goal is to be realized. Administrative skills are separated into three skill sets: managing people, managing resources, and conveying technical capability (Northouse, p. 124). All three of these skills help to make up administrative skills. A good leader must have administrative
The cell structure of an individual or other organism have parts called "genes" that control the concoction responses in the cell that make it develop and capacity and at last focus the development and capacity of the chemical entity. A life form acquires a few genes from each one parent and along these lines the parents pass on specific characteristics to their children.