spend your money making memories

A recent article heading in the Daily Mail read: If you want to be happy, spend your money making memories. What a perfect heading for this website!

A survey showed that people treasured memories more than possessions. And those memories most treasured were the spontaneous and short-lived events. These are also the ones most easily lost for details; the events are remembered but important parts of the memory are lost and forgotten.

In writing articles on this site about my own life I have repeatedly apologized for my lack of detail. When you are in your thirties or forties you can laugh at the very idea of forgetting events that happened in your past. But think again; think back to your childhood of school friends and try to remember all their names; think of some of the things that happened and try to recall in detail exactly what happened. You’ll probably find you can remember the event but when you analyse it you’ll find you can remember almost everything but there are a few of those elusive details that you just cannot remember. You’ll remember most of it, but not everything.

The older you get the more elusive many details become. My mother’s sister was well into her nineties and would amaze us with details of her youth with school friend’s names, dates and so forth. But ask her what happened last week and she was lost; it was a total blank.

That is why I keep barking on about writing down those stories that have happened, are happening now. You can write them on this site but tick the hide box and it will not appear until you’re ready for the world to see your story or stories. Don’t leave it to your memory; the past is your life as you have lived it. Don’t lose it to the future that you may forget!