I thought of this recently. IтАЩve been sending free writing prompts to my stepdaughter every weekday for a couple of months now. The other day, there was one about recalling your first memory. Immediately, something came to mind, but the more I thought about it, I realized it was me making up some story around a pic of my brother and me when I was probably too young to actually remember anything about it.
Haha are you sending *work* to your future daughter? She'll love that ЁЯдг
Yeah those "memories" are tricky. Not that they're not true, but that we have many disconnected imagesтАФlike grains of riceтАФin our head of our early experiences. Our adult selves try to fill in the gaps around those images.
But to me it's still strange and I can't help but be in the middle of an experience worthy of a memory and think, "She'll NEVER remember this. How sad."
IтАЩve been meaning to snag a gmail account for my daughter and schedule emails to send to her in the future. I was thinking theyтАЩd be more sentimental than sending her work. But now youтАЩve got me thinking lol
The free writing prompts with my stepdaughter have been super fun. We just do it for a quick five minutes and even in that short amount of time they bring up interesting thoughts. SheтАЩs pretty hilarious too
Well said! Though they will have infinite photos of themselves, so will those photos become their memories?
Maybe, but are they? When I look back at those images of my childhood, they're just photos to meтАФnot memories.
I also think I have an extremely poor memory!
I thought of this recently. IтАЩve been sending free writing prompts to my stepdaughter every weekday for a couple of months now. The other day, there was one about recalling your first memory. Immediately, something came to mind, but the more I thought about it, I realized it was me making up some story around a pic of my brother and me when I was probably too young to actually remember anything about it.
Haha are you sending *work* to your future daughter? She'll love that ЁЯдг
Yeah those "memories" are tricky. Not that they're not true, but that we have many disconnected imagesтАФlike grains of riceтАФin our head of our early experiences. Our adult selves try to fill in the gaps around those images.
But to me it's still strange and I can't help but be in the middle of an experience worthy of a memory and think, "She'll NEVER remember this. How sad."
I read that wrong and your stepdaughter is likely much older.
IтАЩve been meaning to snag a gmail account for my daughter and schedule emails to send to her in the future. I was thinking theyтАЩd be more sentimental than sending her work. But now youтАЩve got me thinking lol
The free writing prompts with my stepdaughter have been super fun. We just do it for a quick five minutes and even in that short amount of time they bring up interesting thoughts. SheтАЩs pretty hilarious too