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maskormenace2018-11-08 07:50 pm
hellraiser02) wrote in maskormenace2018-11-08 07:50 pm
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How many people do you remember? Do you remember all the people who shaped you? Are you living for anyone, at this moment?
Memories are precious things in this place. We can lose them easily, and they can be returned on a whim. We have no control over it. You can record them, leave them behind here, but even if you hear or read them again, they may not have any meaning to you. Maybe you won’t feel anything at all when reading them, or having someone relay them to you. In that case, aren’t you reading someone else’s memories rather than your own?
Would you be happier to forget them? Or would you want to be able to remember them, no matter what?
As for me, I want to carry these memories with me, for better or worse, for as long as possible. It’s how I’ve always lived anyway. People that have died, people that have left. People that saved me, people that hurt me. For me, it’s a way of living. I know that eventually, I’ll leave this place, and I’ll forget some of them, but I don’t mind bearing their weight for now.
(Sorry. Another rambling, self-indulgent 'in memoriam' post. I hear these are passé, now.)
Memories are precious things in this place. We can lose them easily, and they can be returned on a whim. We have no control over it. You can record them, leave them behind here, but even if you hear or read them again, they may not have any meaning to you. Maybe you won’t feel anything at all when reading them, or having someone relay them to you. In that case, aren’t you reading someone else’s memories rather than your own?
Would you be happier to forget them? Or would you want to be able to remember them, no matter what?
As for me, I want to carry these memories with me, for better or worse, for as long as possible. It’s how I’ve always lived anyway. People that have died, people that have left. People that saved me, people that hurt me. For me, it’s a way of living. I know that eventually, I’ll leave this place, and I’ll forget some of them, but I don’t mind bearing their weight for now.
(Sorry. Another rambling, self-indulgent 'in memoriam' post. I hear these are passé, now.)
Anon text
Thanks for being efficient.
How about the non-humans?
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[Okay, enough baiting, he’s not trying to be so obvious. Really.]
I don’t think all humans are like that, actually. Certainly most, but some people never learn to live by their emotions. Or with them.
I wonder what remembering others must be like for them- if they even tried to.
[A whole different ballpark from trying to unlearn emotions.]
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I meant, people would want to remember, because humans are curious. If they're confronted with the idea of something they've forgotten, and the opportunity to learn what that is, most will take it. Even if it's painful. Even if it has nothing to do with who they are, now.
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So you think the chase for memories is just a part of our overall self-destructive nature? I certainly can’t deny this is true, given how many times imPorts seem to be unable to leave anything well enough alone.
And that impulse certainly doesn’t appear to be limited to humans.
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So what's gotten you so concerned about the impermanence of our memories, then? Something past, or a trial still coming?
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The supposedly wise say we're meant to learn from our mistakes, but it doesn't seem to happen very often, does it?
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But I suppose that's hard to avoid. These traps are cyclical, and hard to avoid.
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All the knowledge in the world isn't going to prevent every moving piece in the background. Logically, I'm aware of this, but it still feels like this crept up right under my nose.
Personal matters and world ones, both.
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It doesn't really get easier, either.
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But I wonder if memories are any help in breaking the cycle, anyway. We could keep chasing after them, hoping we'll get some clue or path out of them, but maybe we're all just spinning our wheels in the mud and there's nothing to find.
Just looking forward isn't our nature either, though.
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After all, if we'd known what to do, then, we wouldn't be here, now, would we?
But you're not wrong. There are too many directions to look, and not enough time.
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Not just Lachesis and her "subtle" nudges. Atropos, too.