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“The worst pain of holding memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” In our society we are different because we can choose what we want to do in our lives. We can pick our jobs. Although between our world and their world there are many differences, some are feelings, jobs, and stricter.

Memories are important, they are a personal record of our past experiences, and could be called the history book for our life. In the poem "The Heroes You Had as a Girl", author Bronwen Wallace tells the story of a woman who meets her high school hero later in her life, reflects on her memories of him, and ultimately decides not to talk to him. The effect that this topic has on everyone is the knowledge that we can be captivated and let our memories control us, and by knowing that our memories hold that much power, it may make it more mentally efficient to make accurate, and personal decisions in a fraction of the time. The topic and overall meaning that this idea holds convey a message that resonates with the idea that memories are in fact the central hub of our decision making. People remembering memories can affect their perspective on their lives to such an extent, that they prefer to immerse their mind in their past memories rather than the current reality.

"The past should be left in the past, otherwise it can destroy your future." These are wonderful words which we should all strive to live by. But letting go of a regrettable past is difficult for even the strongest among us. For members of the 1960 New York Yankees, the World Series of that year is still the most disappointing memory any of them can recall. And while vivid mental pictures of a bad-hop grounder hitting shortstop Tony Kubek in the throat, the Clemente chop, which landed between two undecided fielders and the unforgettable sight of Yogi, his back to the camera, watching helplessly as Bill Mazeroski 's homerun sails over the left field wall, are all etched in the mind of everyone who witnessed these mind-boggling

Everyone has a favorite memory, an embarrassing memory, a miserable memory, and certainly a few crazy memories. No matter if it is happy or sad, inspiring or depressing, these memories have an undeniable effect on our lives: past, present and future. However, is that effect positive or negative, and can it be changed by the whims of the person who holds those memories? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon speak to this question, and though both of their main characters meet a similar end, they do so with different understandings and appreciations of their memories and their history. These two novels show the importance of embracing one’s past in its entirety, but not allowing those memories to dominate

Memory provides a sense of personal identity. Memories that were made from the past create the person that they have become today. It helps to ground judgments and with reasoning. As an illustration, one day a young girl was shopping at the mall with a group of friends and they deiced to steal a cute

Memory Memory is past thing that we have, memory is important things for us to against the war and injustice, and memory’s effect not only these. Memory can help us to avoid past action and wrong thing. In “Hope, Despair and Memory” the author Elie Wiesel have different view for memory. Humanity needs memory to against war and injustice. Memory is important for us.

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory,” Dr. Seuss. Thought and emotions are items that will always last forever inside of humans through thick and thin. Not all the tangible objects given to people will forever withstand their life but the thoughts will always be there for eternity. Many people believe that they would be able to remember anything from an event and the different features of the situation but, people don’t realize the fact that the more they think about a situation the more the memory will change. The excerpt from The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and the excerpt, “Hope, Despair and Memory,” from Elie Wiesel’s Nobel Prize lecture both portray the value of memory through the contradictory

“Memories are a way of holding onto the things we are; the things we love; the things we never want to lose.” ~Kevin Arnold

The reader can use this connection to imagine what it would be like to lose the memories that mean the most to

Memory is one of our greatest assets. “It is how we know who we are. Memory gives us a sense of history, our origin, roots, and identity. By it we relive special events, birthdays, anniversaries and days of national significance. The Lord’s Supper is a call to remember Christ and the cross.” The relationships we have in our lives often become stronger as we take time to reflect on what that person has done for us in the past and continues to do for us. As adults we are able to look back and see the sacrifices our parents made for us and we realize just how much they

On the other hand some might say, memories are hurtful. The first reason is, memories are hurtful because they can deeply affect a person. Another reason is, memories are hurtful because they can ruin a person’s relationships. The last reason that memories are hurtful is, memories can haunt people for the rest of their life. However, helpful memories can shape a person’s identity, and character. In the text written by,

Memory – what it is, how it works, and how it might be manipulated – has long been a subject of curious fascination. Remembering, the mind-boggling ability in which the human brain can conjure up very specific, very lucid, long-gone episodes from any given point on the timeline of our lives, is an astounding feat. Yet, along with our brain’s ability of remembrance comes also the concept of forgetting: interruptions of memory or “an inability of consciousness to make present to itself what it wants” (Honold, 1994, p. 2). There is a very close relationship between remembering and forgetting; in fact, the two come hand-in-hand. A close reading of Joshua Foer’s essay, “The End of Remembering”, and Susan Griffin’s piece, “Our Secret”, directs us

It is the meshing of both history and memory and their undeniable link that allows us to gain empathetic

It is very important to used our memories to get new information so that our memories can function. Many things that have to do with life can cause our memories to changed and to created anew different memory in our mine. For instance, our imagination and the leading questions or different reminiscences of others people. Sometime we can't trust our memories, nevertheless they can be helpful to lead to a questions about the illegal convictions that are victims or witnesses. Our memories must be used to help the lawful system to plot the danger. According to the author, Elizabeth Loftus she explained that memories are valuable, they give us personality also created a shared past that collects us with family and friends. Although, memories are

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.