Childhood amnesia, storytelling, and the lifelong game of memory (part three)
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So, we arrive at this pathos, this realization that any effort to identify first memories must reckon with forgetting. If life were a room, then remembering and forgetting would jostle for space behind its door. Those of us who are growing older know that forgetting may gain the upper hand before we make our exit. But we can note that this is nothing new. It has happened before, in our earliest years.
Childhood amnesia, storytelling, and the lifelong game of memory (part three)
Childhood amnesia, storytelling, and the…
Childhood amnesia, storytelling, and the lifelong game of memory (part three)
So, we arrive at this pathos, this realization that any effort to identify first memories must reckon with forgetting. If life were a room, then remembering and forgetting would jostle for space behind its door. Those of us who are growing older know that forgetting may gain the upper hand before we make our exit. But we can note that this is nothing new. It has happened before, in our earliest years.