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I was watching this movie today on HBO and was trying to figure out what movie is this? Have I seen it before? Keanu Reaves and Charlize Theron were there on the cast. After a while it came to me. I have seen this before. Not entirely, may be in parts. Whats the name of the movie? Its some 'October' or was it 'November'. Well, I could not get the name correctly before googling for it. It turned out to be 'Sweet November'. But that's not the point, my point is - Here's this movie which I had watched long long back, atleast about 5 years ago, had not even seen the entire movie, hadn't really liked or disliked it, but I still remember it!! It was still lying there in my brain somewhere hidden all these years. It brought out with it a memory of the good time that I had in New Jersey, because it was in NJ on cable that I had watched it.
All this got me into thinking how much of all that you have lived through is still lying there occupying the deep narrow bylanes of your brain?! Have you ever played this game of how far back can you go in your memory? How far back do you remember about your childhood? Well, certainly I dont remember the day I was born. I dont think I remembered that ever. The earliest memory that I have about my childhood is my first day (or may be second? or third?) to school, when my grandpa had taken me to school bought me some 'Kuchi's (Kuchi is a tamil word for those long flat chalk pieces that you use to write on your 'Slate' in school).
So, it appears that your brain starts recording things only from a certain point in time. Or may be it recorded things before that point too, but all of it were deleted as they were never accessed later. Or may be they are lying in there still but you got to try harder to access (that is, remember) them.
The other related point is how do you get rid of the junk - Things that you dont want to remember - so that you can free up some space for the good things that you want to remember. Unfortunately, there is no 'Select and Delete' option!!! Is reboot (Punar Janmam - Another Birth) the only option?!! We will possibly feel much less heavier (in terms of our thoughts), if we could delete some junk & may be it will even speeden up the processor!!
All this got me into thinking how much of all that you have lived through is still lying there occupying the deep narrow bylanes of your brain?! Have you ever played this game of how far back can you go in your memory? How far back do you remember about your childhood? Well, certainly I dont remember the day I was born. I dont think I remembered that ever. The earliest memory that I have about my childhood is my first day (or may be second? or third?) to school, when my grandpa had taken me to school bought me some 'Kuchi's (Kuchi is a tamil word for those long flat chalk pieces that you use to write on your 'Slate' in school).
So, it appears that your brain starts recording things only from a certain point in time. Or may be it recorded things before that point too, but all of it were deleted as they were never accessed later. Or may be they are lying in there still but you got to try harder to access (that is, remember) them.
The other related point is how do you get rid of the junk - Things that you dont want to remember - so that you can free up some space for the good things that you want to remember. Unfortunately, there is no 'Select and Delete' option!!! Is reboot (Punar Janmam - Another Birth) the only option?!! We will possibly feel much less heavier (in terms of our thoughts), if we could delete some junk & may be it will even speeden up the processor!!
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