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I just sent an e-mail to a friend of mine asking this, but I wanted some more answers as well.
Most of you don't know much about me, but just why is it that what I rememebr of my past and childhood so diffrent from what my parents and brothers rememebr. The majority or there stories line up but I was talking to my mom today and she asked me seriously what I was smoking becuase she didn't even realize that I was seriously recalling memories.
Mind you I'm only 17... Thats not a very long ago past to screw up.
Please answer guys...
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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What if it's as simple as "We remmemebr the things that are important to us in the way they are important"?
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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That makes my past seem very deppressing
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
Registered: March 2003
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Thats why it is always better to look toward the future...
Remember the past... but use it don't let it use you.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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How can I rememebr the past when apparently I don't even know what happened during it
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
Registered: March 2003
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If you don't know then it is a non-issue.
But then......... yesterday is a part of the past..... tomorow today will be as well.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Its not a non issue becuase I can't rememebr what happened and thats bugging me. Then the stuff I do rememebr apparently either isn't 'the truth' or didn't happen. Or maybe I just rememebr it diffrently. SO I'm not even sure what happened with the stuff I thought I could rememebr.
I really need to start writing all my days down to try and avoid this confusion in the future I think
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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Remember that you're looking at the world, in those memories, from a child's perspective. what you thought was going on was probably not at all what the parents were seeing. I'll give you an example:
I have this memory of being very little, and being held over a pot of boiling water on the stove. I was screaming and crying, and i thought that my parents were going to put me in the boiling water, which i knew even then was a very bad idea. For years, this memory haunted me and i always wondered why my parents would do such a thing.
So one day i asked my mother about it. She also remembered the incident, and told me that at the time i had a case of the croup, with a large and very tenacious phlegm plug in my airway, and they were holding me over the pot of boiling water so that the steam would go into my airway and soften the obstruction so i could cough it out.
2 different perspectives--same incident.
cheers!
aj
"I promise not to try not to fuck with your mind/ I promise not to mind if you go your way and i go mine/promise not to lie if i'm looking you right in your eye/promise not to try not to let you down."
--Eve6
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Hmmmm That was actually really helpful AJ thanks. *Hugs* One of the memories that freaks me out and that my mom is havign a lot of trouble explaining is actually from preschool. The idea that you can't rememebr ANYTHING from that age I assure you is false becuase this is totally my own memory and leaves my folks clueless.
So Its me but for some reason I am alone in a train car. Its not a moving train car but I am just sitting there by myself. ANd I start freaking out cuz I think my parents have left me. My mom had been with me a few moments before.
I dunno seems stupid now.
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
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