Life’s fleeting memory.
Life skips people.
For both good things and bad things.
Sometimes you have a stupid idea, and few years down the line, you see that your idea making someone a millionaire.
Some days, someone special needs you, and you are not there for the person. A few years down the line, the person doesn’t even remember you, they’ve found someone else to care for them.
Sometimes, you feel like doing something, and in a moment, you start doing something else, and you forget what it is you wanted to do first.
Life is beautifully fleeting. We all have our memories, because life doesn’t. LIFE DOES NOT HAVE MEMORY. IT NEITHER DOES, NOR NEEDS TO, REMEMBER YOU.
So many people nowadays like to keep memntos; memories embedded in small items, photos, videos, whatever they can use to capture an emotion or memory. And that is good. We hope people remember us, that is one thing I am almost sure everyone on earth has in common. Eeveryone wants SOMEONE to remember them. That is why we are nice to strangers or why we do “grand” gestures for each other sometimes. At least some people.
But today, I was talking to someone. A very wise young person. And she told me something, that made me write this post. She said, “Life has no memory, so life will not remember me, but I will remember life”.
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And it made so much sense to me;
To do the grand gesture, so that you can remember the smile on that loved one’s face.
To be nice to the stranger, so you can remember his nerves calmed when you spoke to him.
To do hard, crazy and funny stuff, so you can remember the joy life brought you.
Life should be lived outwards, but life should be felt inwards.
This post might be too vague for you, the audience for this post is just a special set of people, who understand what I’m saying.
Good evening!
PS: I remember my post about taking my shot today. No shot seen. Yet. But I know it is coming today, so maybe tomorrow you guys will hear about it.
