WE CAN REMEMBER IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE a short story by Philip K Dick (1966)
What’s too painful to remember, we simply choose to forget.
So goes the song anyway.
Real life can be more complicated.
Sometimes we embellish rather than eliminate a bad memory and sometimes we add some details to something good we’ve experienced.
The mind can play tricks too. There are those deja vu moments or things we’re sure we have or haven’t done which turn out to be false.
From the moment we are born our brain cells are slowly dying so if we reach the end of our lives with all our mental faculties intact, we should count ourselves fortunate. Continue reading
