Saturday, October 04, 2008

Lest You Forget

What tools people use to preserve personal memories? Off hand I can think of the following:
  • Photographs
  • Personal writings (for example, journal, blogs, e-mails, letters, etc)
  • Mementos
They also use scrapbooks in the West.
Am I missing out something?





You know the question about what you would grab if you could if your house went on fire? What do you normally answer? I think that one of the things that I have always held dear is my collection of photographs.
- From a blog

One of the reasons why people hold on to memories so tight is because memories are the only thing that don't change when everyone else does.
- Anonymous

When does an 'event' become a 'memory'?
When does 'memory' become 'trivia'?

I agree and hope there are a lot of memories that are not trivia! I am more perturbed by those memories that should not be 'trivia' but end up becoming so...
- From another blog

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
- Gabriel García Márquez

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