Sunday, May 28, 2006

AAAARRGGHHH!!!

Do you ever wish you could decant the thoughts in your mind? You know, like Dumbledore does in Harry Potter, he puts all his thoughts into a Pensive, which as two major benefits. First his mind doesn't get so full of thought after thought after thought so that if eventually feels like either it's going to burst or he's going to go insane... and second he can come back to thoughts that he would have otherwise forgotten about. Sounds great doesn't it. Unfortunately us Muggles have to put up with a pen and paper.

Sometimes it is so easy to forget everything around you. When you're with someone you feel so totally confortable with that you forget there even is a world out there, or when you're lying in bed and you don't have to get up and you just doze in and out of such a beautiful thoughtless sleep, or when you see something that is so incredibly breathtakingly exquisite, or when you are listening to a song that for whatever reason transports you somewhere else... You just forget all the things that you have to think about and it's blissful.

But then there is always that moment when it all comes rushing back, when you remember. Sometimes I think that having no memory would be amazing, but then, when I get to those moments that I do forget I wouldn't trade them for the world, and they wouldn't be half as amazing if I couldn't remember why they were amazing. Does that make sense? I don't think so but I know what I mean.

2 comments:

Nicola said...

Having a penseive would be great! You could decant all the thoughts out of your brain when they're wizzing around when you're trying to sleep! If you had no memory, you wouldn't be able to capture moments that are so special, you'd lose them! You also wouldn't learn anything! You'd forget who your are, who your friends are, where you live etc etc... Although the memory does have its downsides, you remember all the bad stuff as well, e.g. emabarasing moments or scary moments. Those kinds of expereices have an effect on you becasue you remember them and you think I wont do that again in case we get a repeat performance! If you're in a horrible place, somewhere you really don't want to be, a 'forgetting' moment where you get transported somewhere else could be so amazing but the 'rushing back' bit would be sooooo awful! Anywho! See u later aligator! Nic xxx

Katita said...

lol yeah i think all things considered that memory is way better than no memory. you couldnt have good without the bad after all. or could you? discuss.