Amnesia
If you feel I am way off line here let me know:
I believe it is very important to get in touch with your past. Reviews are always good. Reviewing finances at the end of a year, keeping a diary, reading old letters from friends, keeping a photo album of special and memorable occasions etc. The world makes reviews at the end of the year, decade, century- and history is so important cause it helps us understand the present. Just this disaster today with the terrorist attacks on pentagon and commerce buildings gives us a moment to pause and reassess everything, including a moment to the innocent ones who perished, and possibly shed a tear.
But so much is lost and forgotten and locked away. Valuable things. Memories and experiences that have shaped us. It seems that most are living on the surface, the present. What I mean is that because of past traumas they have forgotten a complete time period and are "running away" in the present. At the same time they are killing apart of themselves cause the good moments and the joys are sacrificed too. We have to rediscover them and relive those experiences. You can try to do that through disciplining yourself to mentally recall, or using photos, but I believe the strongest and most powerful way is through individuals. Human touch and contact. The most powerful stimuli to aid in recall. There is no effort. For example: think how
A new friendship completely changes you. The way you look at life. The new relationship awakens a whole new consciousness. The world looks different. They have tapped into a part of your brain. But think about too meeting an old friend again. All those experiences subconsciously recalled. They are familiar to you. The little things you notice. Through eye contact, their speech, their movements-and you recognize that person and you start tapping into old memories instantaneously. As you regain contact with more and more individuals from your past, and go back to old familiar places i.e. walking through your old schools and houses and talking to your teachers from grade 3 -then those dead brain cells come to life. Those neurological pathways are strengthened as the old picture forms and comes to life and deeper impressions instilled.
I was reading the other day on infant care and assisting the mother (a unit in my class). I believe that is the greatest bonding experiences ever experienced and not recalled or relived, as it should be. The whole experience of human birth and infant care. The newborn completely dependent. The need for touch and human contact, which is so grossly lacking in this world of no affection and broken bonds. The mother daughter bond and father/daughter/son etc. When they grow up they act so distant. But at one time was in the very womb of their mother and diapers changed and bathed. Just the whole act of birth is mind blowing and awesome and you have to admit their is a creator and fall down to your knees and thank God like David in the psalms was moved to say "in a fear inspiring way I am wonderfully made, your works are wonderful oh god, as my very soul is well aware."
I think if we took time to review our past we will grow and progress much faster as a human being have deeper understanding into ourselves and the universe around us. And if we think back to the touching moments between relationships we are now estranged to, we can learn to touch again. Like a married couple taking time to reminisce about their dating period. Its fun to listen to the crazy things they did or how they were lovesick-and when they get so wrapped up in telling you they are reliving the moments and the emotions are in their smile and laughs. It’s so beautiful.
