Through dreams and ideas we are seduced to go back to particular places and instances of our past. In the course of the years, these singular moments and spaces of our history very often receive then another color and dimension. Our mind tries however to tame and keep in control the phantoms of times past. If not so, our memory can be subject to an irreversible mutilation. ( "The mutilated memory" ) .Erik Pevernagie
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The mutilation of memory is becoming more and more common. We are losing the thread of the past and we don’t even know it. Not only do we forget who we were, but we forget our own experiences. We live in a state of constant forgetting.
We don’t allow our memories to take us back to those times which made us who we are. We deny the importance of those times and events that shaped our lives and ultimately our identity. We lose touch with what really matters to us, the moments of our lives that made us who we are today.
The memory is important, without it we would loose contact with the past and the present would be clouded.
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