My memories

   Imagine you are at the party with your friends. It's great, you all are having a great time, but a couple days after, you and your friends want to describe what happened there to a friends of yours who didn't have the opportunity to go there. As the friends are recalling the event you realize that those descriptions differ from each other and maybe especially from yours?
Is that situation sounds familiar to you?


   It happened to me countless numbers of times! For example, yesterday when I was talking casually about our last family trip to Italy with my brother. We were chatting how great and exciting it was, when suddenly I cought myself thinking from time to time it wasn't like that or this person said something else ect. Our memories distinguished sometimes so much that it made me think about it. Are my memories diffrient because I forgot some details or maybe my experiences fade with time? Maybe overshadowing my memories occured?  Are overshadowed memories bad or a good thing in case of history and its witnesses? Can people escape from that phenomenon? And finally, is overshadowing memories a part of having memories?



 
    As far as I can say I'm almost certain that it's not possible not to overshadow memories after some time. Putting into words past events and accompanying them emotions can be really hard. Also many times while describing an event we tend to be very emotional and by trying to make another person feel the same way we did in that moment, we overemphasize. This is the nature of humans and for now I don't think that there is a way to verify memories when an event wasn't recorded or filmed. It's necessary for us to acknowledge this fact and try to be as genuine in our descriptions as we possibly can.

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