“'I’ve been in love with him since I was seven years old. I whispered a happy birthday song to him every year into my pillow so my sister wouldn’t laugh at me for remembering. When I started learning cursive, I practiced by writing our names together . . .'"
She’d read somewhere once that our memories are never reliable, that what we are actually remembering is not the event itself, but a replay of the last time we remembered the event.
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Ters köşeleri seviyorsan, seni sonuna kadar merakta bırakacak 3 kitap önerisini keşfetmeye hazır ol!
Pleasure teaches your brain that a behavior is worth remembering and repeating.
Keep the mind distracted at all times. Never, ever stop to think.
Because thinking is bad.
Thinking leads to remembering... And remembering is the enemy.
Kierkegaard explains that the unhappy man is never present to himself because he's always living in the past or the future. He's always either hoping or remembering.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
Because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking that you have something to lose.
