captainjackspizzy asked: I just read your post about books as presents, and it reminded me of my childhood. When I was young I was an avid reader, I would read up to three books a day and ten a week. I have an aunt who is a librarian. Every Eid my other aunts would give me dolls, but she gave me books. The first present she got me was a large children's dictionary, with a message inside the cover. I absolutely loved it. I would flip through it and write down all the words I liked, along with their meanings, in a journal
"You miss a person the most when you have something to share with them, to tell them, but you can’t. That’s the hardest kind of missing because all others are just remembrance or cherishing memories etc. This kind of missing is helpless."
When you have a picture in your mind but it’s more than just the image, you also have the feelings in your fingertips, the smells, the sounds, everything?
I have this image stuck in my mind of a morning not too long ago and I can’t shake it. It’s like that moment was seared in to my memory and when I close my eyes I see it.
Everything is so clear. Everything is so vivid. Everything is so real.
I don’t know if I want it to stay or if I want it to slip away. It scares me. It scares me how many other memories there are. Its scares me how powerful they are.
kozmosis-deactivated20120207 asked: I didn't have enough room to reply to the post and have to send two messages. I've seen that movie and I used to think about that same thing, wondering if I could would I go through with it? Before, I probably would have said that I would because of how much something hurt. Now the more I think about it, I don't think I would. If the memory of them goes, then wouldn't it also mean that the lessons you learned from that person and relationship go along with it? Even if it was a bad break up...
I think you should take whatever you learned from it along with you. In a way, it can help you grow in some way. If mistakes were made, it would help to make sure you don’t let the same thing happen again. I couldn’t do something like that just for that reason, despite how bad a break up might have been.
I totally agree. Exactly, everything would go. I don’t think I could ever bring myself to let go of anything like that. I’m a firm believer in being the sum of my experiences and if my experiences weren’t there I wouldn’t be the person I am now. I guess it also depends on if you’re content being the person you are?
with my house mate tonight and I can’t believe how that film can blow my mind over and over again. I’ve seen it so many times now but it never fails to move me.
It’s about a guy, played by Jim Carrey, who decides to erase memories of his ex-girlfriend, played by Kate Winslet, from his mind.
I feel the film brings up so many interesting philosophical questions.
Would you erase someone you once loved from your mind if you went through a horrible break-up?
I want to do this challenge over the next month. It’ll bring back some pretty great memories. Shamelessly stolen from blissbubbley:
day 01 - your favourite match day 02 - your least favourite match day 03 - a match that makes you happy day 04 - a match that makes you sad day 05 - a match that reminds you of someone day 06 - a match that reminds you of somewhere day 07 - a song that reminds you of a certain match day 08 - a player who scored your favourite ever goal. day 09 - a player who made the biggest ever howler day 10 - a match that made you (almost) fall asleep day 11 - a player from your favourite team day 12 - a player from your least favourite team day 13 - a team that is a guilty pleasure day 14 - a team that no one would expect you to love day 15 - a player that inspires you day 16 - a player that you used to love but now hate day 17 - a player your team are constantly linked to day 18 - a player you wished your club had signed day 19 - a favourite football chant day 20 - a player you’d love to punch when you’re angry day 21 - your favourite player before your lifetime day 22 - a game you’d love to play in day 23 - a manager you want as your best man at your wedding day 24 - a manager that you want to speak at your funeral day 25 - a player/manager that makes you laugh day 26 - your favorite football ground day 27 - a player you wish you could be day 28 - a player that you look at and wonder how they made it day 29 - a player from your childhood day 30 - the best away day of your life
I’m going through my camera and looking at all the photos I took in Dubai. I’m going to select a whole bunch of them and start putting them on the blog over the next few days and weeks. I think some of them are really cool and, hopefully, you guys will like them as much as I do.
It’s amazing how a simple piece of technology lets you snap a moment in time. That moment then links to the memories you have of that moment and forms a whole that takes years to forget.
A simple collection of pixels on a screen or colours on some paper can transport you through years and across continents. It can transport you to a long forgotten birthday party or a first day of school. It can help you recall that day you spent with someone special or the time you saw that freak snowstorm in September.
I think I’m going to be taking photographs for years to come. I’ll share more than a few with you guys along the way.
I’ve sat here for a little while and I seriously can’t think of my ‘happiest’ memory. I’ve come up with a few happy memories from my childhood and I think I’ll share a couple of them with you and then tell you what makes them special for me.
Oh my, this question is tough. I’ve been sat here thinking about the answer for a while and I’m still no closer to what I would pick so I’m just going to start writing about both options and just hope that one of them comes through more clearly than the other.
I feel the way I answer this question is very different from the way most people would answer this question. The very simple reasons for this is that I’ve met people at different stages in life. I met a whole bunch of people who live near where I live at high school, I met people at university, I met people during my post-grad at university, and I’ve met people in Saudi Arabia. I’ve been the person who’s moved away a lot but I’ve also lost touch with people near me.
I went through a phase a few years ago where I took pictures of everything and everyone. Over the course of 18 months to two years I took around 10,000 pictures of my life, the people I knew, and small things that caught my attention. I always carried a camera with me. I haven’t been through those pictures in a long time but I think I’ll wade through them at some point this summer - most of them are on DVDs I burned and are at home. Thinking about pictures has got me thinking about the memories we have and how they all tie together.
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
Thanks for asking, Tumblrbot. I’ll have you know that my earliest human memory is my grandfather dropping me off at school when I was three or four years old and crying because I didn’t want to go. I think it set up a life-long pattern!
I keep watching the video and it makes me smile and then it makes me want to cry. What everything meant then was so different from what it meant earlier this week. It’s amazing how intense everything became so very quickly.
