What’s something you know you do differently than most people?
My first thought was to go in the same direction as yesterday’s post. I discovered so many more situations where this odd calmness and directness took over during stressful times. But in the spirit of this project, I want to learn something new, so despite it taking me a few minutes I thought of a new answer.
I remember.
Now, I know that almost every other being in the human population (and possibly some select animals) has the capability to remember, but nobody I know tries to actively remember. I don’t know how many times I start out a sentence with “Hey! Remember when...,” and then whoever I happen to be talking to looks at me as if I were insane and says they can’t recall said conversation or event.
Good or bad I always find myself replaying EVERYTHING before I fall asleep each day, rather all of my interactions. I do sporadically keep a journal, but I never go back and read it, so I’m starting to question the reasoning behind that. I find it much more useful to continuously ‘review’ (like hitting rewind a bunch of times on a film) all of my conversations and outings with the people around me. Not because I want to change things, or regret anything, instead I simply just don’t want to forget. Anything. Ever. All of these talks and experiences that may not register as important to someone else, because it was ‘just another day,’ are very important to me. I am who I am because of those. Why would I want to forget?
I’m rambling now, but the point is that I try much harder than the average joe to etch each and every memory of mine onto my brain and onto my heart.
