July 16, 2009

Selective Memory

While looking through old pictures I realized that not only did I ruthlessly delete pictures which were hazy, poor quality or totally random, but also that I could just as easily delete pictures of me in which I was doing something silly or was looking horrible.

Just makes me wonder if that's how memory works - where we selectively retain the good ones while erasing or blocking unpleasant ones? Maybe in that case nostalgia is over-rated. Or maybe I'm just extremely narcissistic.

3 comments:

Tanz said...

Hmmm.. good question. I think it differs from person to person. I unfortunately tend to cling on to the bad memories... something i wish could be fixed in my mechanics :(.

008 said...

tanu, try deleting old unpleasant pictures ;)

Tanz said...

:)..old unpleasant pictures are gone burnt.. long ago... only if i can delete them from stupid memory.. :-s