Category: Memories

My wife just asked me to put up a ceiling fan. I didnt know that was part of marriage! This was my first thought on Sunday, August 8, 2010, as I stood in my bedroom with a bunch of screws, nuts, bolts, and fan blades. My head swirled with thoughts of how to get out…

In the book The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, the author discusses the stories of soldiers who participated in the Vietnam War and experienced a great amount of trauma and guilt brought by their experiences. Tim OBrien uses imagery to help the reader put themselves in the perspectives of the soldiers through demonstrating how…

Memories are malleable with several different variables that change the biases of memories. Memories vary with different factors that contribute to the outcome of a memory. Certain defaults such as age, gender, cultures, and languages can alter how an individual remembers an event. Additionally, people often adopt other peoples memories whilst listening to another persons…

With my sapped body completely drained at 6:30 a.m., a sudden thought comes to mind: ‘Why am I doing this?’. There was a glare from the rising sun entering my bedroom. The room itself was musty, and it was almost as if the humidity in the air from that morning could suffocate me. I am…

We often associate the word history and fact as synonymous and interchangeable. We dont take into consideration what goes on while recounting or retelling stories or events from the past. Memories are constructed and reconstructed with every re-telling of the event, and with every repetition, the recollection is slightly altered and changed. The question that…

Repression affects the decisions we make in many aspects of life. For instance, a memory that is so revolting it can be retrieved in the subconscious and maybe after a few years later the memory may appear again into the consciousness. Furthermore, many legal scholars test the validity of repressed memories for evidence. They gained…

How did you meet your best friend? What were you for halloween in middle school? What did you have for dinner last night? Everything that just went through your head, even if it was ten years ago or just last night, is a memory. Children start remembering things by the age of three. However, at…

It was just the beginning of my secondary school life. I was just a snotty-nosed primary six student, stepping into a whole new daunting world. The first thing that struck me was how much bigger my new secondary school was. Standing in front of the massive, imposing founders statue at the entrance, I didnt know…

Memories are malleable with several different variables that change the biases of memories. Memories vary with different factors that contribute to the outcome of a memory. Certain defaults such as age, gender, cultures, and languages can alter how an individual remembers an event. Additionally, people often adopt other peoples memories whilst listening to another persons…

With my sapped body completely drained at 6:30 a.m., a sudden thought comes to mind: ‘Why am I doing this?’. There was a glare from the rising sun entering my bedroom. The room itself was musty, and it was almost as if the humidity in the air from that morning could suffocate me. I am…