Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Unconscious Memory

Been bumping into friends who have not been heard for ages, from months up to years. They didn’t change much, for one thing, thus it doesn’t take much time to recognize them from the crowd. “You’ve changed a lot!” one of the comments received most. Probably, probably not. One said, does not matter how many years have passed, a person’s facial features would somehow remain the same, just that the way they ‘present’ themselves is different, from the hair style to clothing, make up to none. Exchanged numbers, leaving notes saying to meet up some other day, if possible. People say one year is long enough, to not able to predict what might be happening till then. Close friends may not be as close as they are in the future, friends who have been seeing each other for 5 days a week cutting down to not meeting one and another. “I might even forget about you in the days to come, who knows?” one of the conversations before the day has come to an end. It’s true that we may forget, but unconsciously, I believe, we somehow remember everything. The only problem is, how clear it is, the memory being stored in us.