When I was young, I used to go fishing to the lake with Jojo on Sundays. Everyone, including the doctors, engineers, and Mister said that there were no fishes in the lake. The water is too contaminated for the fishes to survive. But we still liked to spend our Sundays fishing around. We had all sorts of fantasies about the other side of the lake. We used to imagine the kind of world that would exist across the other side. The people, how they lived, what they did, how they did it. But every one told us to quit visiting the lake. They said that there are no fishes in the lake so it’s useless to go there. All this useless talk had made us very sad. So, one day we put dead fishes in our rods and hung them down the lake to prove that there were fishes in the lake. And just when we planned to pull the rod out and make a big fake fuss about it, Mister arrived to take us back home. "Still looking for fishes", he smiled. "Just wait and see, we will at least catch a dozen fishes
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a brand new beginning? or would there be a temptation to rediscover the past?
" And why insanity..."
" For you to see how fortunate you are."
" And why sanity..."
" For you to realize how unfortunate you are to be one of the fortunate ones."
syra, you don't to lose your mind or your memories to realize which you would choose. all you have to do is to put yourself in a situation where your memories and learned experiences are mostly irrelevant (so they might as well not have been there).
what situation might this be? different for different people. for me, it is sufficient to stand before a crowd and it makes me wonder whether i know myself and them. but i imagine being in an unfamiliar situation where you don't know what is expected of you, e.g. visit to a foreign land, being at a very formal dinner in the company of celebrities, etc. that should do the trick.
But my question is that since you remember nothing, there would be no inclination to dig into the past because you remember nothing and there are no feelings attached, no? Family and friends would seem to be as alien as strangers. It's all blank.
If I simulate the situation it seems scary since at the moment I know me and bear memories and feelings attached to people, likings, disliking etc. If all that is null, wouldn't it kill the urge to dig into the past too?
They do say its human nature to know.
Visit to a foreign land - gradually one tends to feel comfortable and settles in. The ease of it varies from person to person. btw with no memories, home land would be as foreign as any foreign land..it might make the tuning in process quicker.hmm
being at a very formal dinner in the company of celebrities -- yeheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :). I would be cool however in my superstar presence, the celebrities might feel shy :p
Jokes apart, if I remember nothing, the celebrities would appear to me like a stranger too but yes a formal lunch with unknown ppl might be a bit odd.