Total Recall

Memory is a strange thing.  It plays just as clearly as an old rerun on TV except it may not really be accurate. 

It must not be completely accurate.  I remember events very clearly one way and my sister remembers them very clearly another.  Sometimes my brother remembers them a third way!

Part of that is the way each of us perceive things, but part of it has to be faulty memory, or enhanced memory!  Events become colored by other experiences and feelings and are somehow edited by accommodating brains.

It is easy to say that my brother and sister are wrong, but what about literature?  I remember reading something and when I reread it now, it is totally different.  Obviously I am the faulty one here.

Whatever changes things for me, the reality of now is so much better than anything in the past.  Perhaps I have grown wiser and more patient, or perhaps I am just more open to the truth.  Either way my life feels richer than it ever has.