Limited Memories

Many people imagine that because they have billions brain cells they must have billions of memories. I think our store of memories is actually quite limited. Try this experiment.

• Make a list of all the events your can remember from your 12th year.
• Make a list of all the people you can remember you interacted with in your 12th year.
• Make a list of all the places whose floor plans you can remember from your 12th year.
• Make a list of your clothes, possessions and pets from your 12th year.
• Make a list of characters you recall from TV and movies in your 12th year.
• Make a list of what you would typically see in the kitchen cupboards and the refrigerator in your 12th year.

If you do this for your 13th year, there will be quite a bit of duplication.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)