Creating Pleasant memories

Imagine for a moment that you’ve lost your memory. You can’t remember anything from your past; faces, experiences, emotions, all gone. Then, for some strange reasons, all of your lost memories are laid out on a tray before you. You are asked to pick the memories you want back and leave out the rest.

For many people, the pleasant memories would be picked first. You and I are probably no different; the pleasant memories will always come first. The time you enjoyed happiness as a little child, when you won a competition at school, when you had your first love. On and on, you would certainly pick those ones that gave and will give you happiness.

Let’s then assume you ran out of pleasant memories and then proceeded to the unpleasant ones. You would certainly start with those that turned out with happy endings. At the end of the exercise, you would have most likely picked more pleasant memories than unpleasant ones. Whether the unpleasant ones were more than the pleasant ones at the table is of no great significance here.

Let’s add a new twist: imagine you had very few pleasant memories, probably not enough to leave you satisfied. That is surely an unpleasant thought; and most certainly, you wouldn’t want that to become reality. That is what this write-up is all about.

The power to create pleasant and unpleasant memories lies within our grasp. It is something we can decide to a very large degree. Every time we put a smile on someone’s face, wipe tears with words of comfort, show kindness to people around us, are there for families and friends when they need us, we create pleasant memories in the lives of others and ours.

Unpleasant memories will always come. Rejections, betrayals, disappointments, sickness, breakups, even death; sometimes, there is almost nothing we can do to prevent them. We can only mum them with pleasant memories.

The power to create pleasant memories in our lives and other lie within our heart and hands. We only need to stretch our hands and hearts and create happiness.

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