[Bargaining] Day 5: 0030H, 062308. (Self never) forgiven, (you’re) not forgotten*
July 2, 2008Memories. One can really hate how memories about someone have this nasty tendency to ambush you when and where you least expect them to. While riding a bike and partially hearing a random song from the random radio you suddenly remember that someone singing the same song to you and laughing that laugh you so loved; when the sound of the first drops of a hard rain falling upon the GI roof reaches your ears you suddenly remember that cold rainy afternoon spent snuggled on the couch, looking into each others’ eyes, tracing one’s contures with the other’s lips; when you sniff a certain scent from a random passerby you suddenly remember how that someone’s nape smells so sweet and sensous even after a long day… you get the picture.
Let’s attack this problem logically shall we; e.g. using logic, see if one can get avoid being ambushed from nowhere by these memories about someone.
IF when and where you least expect them to, memories about someone will ambush you
THEN
expecting an ambush everytime from memories about someone will not allow
those memories to ambush you when and where you least expect them to(if p then q; therefore if !p then !q)
But consider - by definition, memories are stored information in the mind about situations already experienced and the sensory data from the aforementioned situations. For a certain experience or situation to qualify as a ‘memory’, one must be able to remember actively or passively if one has previously experienced the current situation and/or one has encountered before the sensory data currently perceived by the sense organs. A ‘memory about someone’ is a memory associated to that someone; a certain scent, a certain situation etc.
Therefore, to say that the current situation is a ‘memory with someone’, one must remember actively or passively if the current situation has already been experienced with that someone. However, you’d just end up recalling memories with that someone, which is the primary thing you were trying to avoid in the first place - remembering the memories about someone.
And of course, forgetting about that someone is NOT an option.
(A/N: * - from the title of a Corrs song. Of course, if there’s one person anyone can rarely forgive, it’s one’s self. And yes, forgetting that someone is NOT an option.)
Very creative writing style, I like it.
