Memories are funny

[wildrider]

I was reading through some of my actual posts here and I found I don't remember a lot of it. I mean, at all. I always prided myself on a good memory -- I even like to give myself memory games to make sure I remember things. But there were entire posts in late 2015 which stirred no memory for me at all. It was like I never wrote them at all -

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[lordgloria]

"I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today!" -- Whimpy, via POPEYE. ^_^

[nutmeg3]

I was just coming here to say that very thing! I'll have to just drop a reference to "Ruby Tuesday" and run.

[lordgloria]

LOL!!

[cornerofmadness]

I would not have imagined Nesmith and Adams being great friends either. Cool.

I feel you on the memories. In my head, during my injury I wrote detailed notes of my recovery and treatment in the nursing home. I went back to them because I planned (still do but I wasn't ready) to write a horror novel based on my stay. And instead of that I found an incoherent, whinefest with very little details. So my memory wasn't even real.

The no memory of it comes a lot from AO3's daily updates and I'm like what even IS this story? I wrote that? When? Why?

[wildrider]

I've had that happen with writing. I was going over Sean Patrick's timeline once and found copious notes on a time in his life that I had absolutely no memory of having written AT ALL. Couldn't fathom what story I'd had in mind when I wrote the notes. It was totally gone.

[cornerofmadness]

I'm with you there. I find that a lot with my nano novels. I write in a fever for a month and then take that Christmas break and the characters are just GONE by the new year

[margdean56]

Then there's this:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ButForMeItWasTuesday

[wildrider]

Cool!