I am trying to decide whether being able to read people's diaries would be really interesting or really boring and mundane. Diaries are interesting because its a record of your thoughts or moods or events- all of which have a very low chance of being remembered- even weeks later. Memory is fleeting, and I would guess that 98% of everything that you think or hear others say that is even remotely worth remembering passes right through storage and into the land of the forgotten. Well, there may be a lot that is stored, but requires some sort of trigger to be shaken of the dust that gathers over it so quickly. But until that trigger comes- if it ever comes- it's pretty much gone, baby gone.
But at the same time, I believe memories make the person- a big part of the person anyway, so if memory is so fleeting and inefficient, how can our selves be stable? On the other hand, I said a few entries ago that there remains a part of us that remains eternally unchanged no matter how many years have gone by. So fleeting memories, steadfast personalities? Was Phineas Gage a different person after he got the iron rod stuck in his head?
In other news, a second tattoo may be on the way- this time designed by moi. Memory may be fleeting, but tattoos are forever!
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