In a month, I will have no recollection of this evening whatsoever.
This line *is* the human condition, truly, and I think it's absolutely beautiful, in a heartbreaking kind of way, that even young children realize this, all by themselves, as evinced in how many of us, throughout our lives, resolve to commit utterly mundane moments to memory and then actually succeed, things like "I vow to never forget THIS moment, with the pebble pressing hard into my palm during PE, and I'm 6 years old and in 1st standard", and all this effort for no reason other than that we want to rescue that moment from sinking like stones into the deepest recesses of memory, which surely lead to a drain-like void. Godddd where do those memories go...like, thank you brain, for not overloading, but where *DO* they go...
In a month, I will have no recollection of this evening whatsoever.
This line *is* the human condition, truly, and I think it's absolutely beautiful, in a heartbreaking kind of way, that even young children realize this, all by themselves, as evinced in how many of us, throughout our lives, resolve to commit utterly mundane moments to memory and then actually succeed, things like "I vow to never forget THIS moment, with the pebble pressing hard into my palm during PE, and I'm 6 years old and in 1st standard", and all this effort for no reason other than that we want to rescue that moment from sinking like stones into the deepest recesses of memory, which surely lead to a drain-like void. Godddd where do those memories go...like, thank you brain, for not overloading, but where *DO* they go...
this one comment alone puts across the point better than my entire piece. URNA SUBSTACK ERA WHEN
i miss you and your writing...the corporate world has robbed us of your gentle mind
Perfectly taut thread of melancholy running through the whole piece, hats off truly