11. Memory

This is a tribute to the fickleness of memory.

This sentence is for all the times you had a great idea, then forgot it as soon as you had the time to write it down.

This sentence is for the dream so profound you woke up screaming, but forgot in another five seconds.

This sentence is for the nostalgia that glosses over all the unpleasant parts of the past.

This sentence is for the song that never goes away.

This sentence is for the fright you get as memories slowly fade away to nothingness, visited only in your dreams (refer back to sentence 2).

This sentence is for the warmth of that time you were all snuggled up in just the right chair reading a book or watching a movie while eating comfort food.

This sentence is for that embarrassing thing you did once which you tried to forget but now you remember again (hint, school, youth, family, other people laughing, awkward silence, disappointment, and probably alcohol).

This sentence is for the memory of a sad time which has lost its bite over the times.

This sentence is for the memory of love which has lost its bite over the times.

This sentence is to trigger that atmosphere of ages past in your memory, seen through a sepia colored piece of glass. The world was smaller but larger than it seemed. Food was simple yet more delicious. Emotions were wilder but quickly forgotten. Those are the memories you hold on to, even as time snatches it from your arms and warps it to be easier to hold.