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Rorey

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7. I've been reading about memories
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 06:36 AM
Oct 2021

I read a theory once that we start remembering our memories rather than the actual event.

Both my brother and my ex-husband seem to want to live in the past a lot because they talk about it so much. I honestly don't really care if I remember something that happened years or decades ago exactly the way it happened, because it just doesn't really matter. Talking about those things seems to become storytelling at some point, and a lot of those stories just weren't all that interesting anyway. I guess that's why people alter them in their minds......to make them more interesting.

I prefer to live in the day that I'm in. When someone hurts me, I work hard to get past the hurt. I put a period after it and move on.

I do hold grudges, but only for a short period of time. My ex-husband holds onto them forever, and now I'm seeing that he not only holds onto them, he embellishes them. Such a sad way to live.

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