About Memory

In college, a group project went so horribly wrong that we all swore a blood oath never to speak of it again. Naturally, we remember it in excruciating detail. But do we recall the questions for that statistics final?

Of course not. Our memory is a conscious choice.

Take my friend Rocky. He remembers every embarrassing thing I’ve ever done but conveniently forgets his blunders. Like the time he broke the window of his own house while playing cricket.

Our brains curate our past like a biased museum — highlighting the disasters, censoring the dull, and deleting responsibilities on demand.