Remembering

What do you remember?

Things, events, moments

Looking back. History. What do I remember? How do I remember?

I had a teacher in first grade who taught us about something she called current events. Every week we had to cut out and bring in a newspaper article. She said we were learning about history because the current events would become that. I don’t remember the events we discussed, I remember thinking it’s was super boring. I could never bring anything interesting from the news paper like the comics, for reasons I couldn’t comprehend, but I do remember the concept. I even remember being interested in the idea that we were living history now. It was perplexing to my little five year old brain.

Now I see where she was going, even though we were all too young to grasp it, or care about news stories, she was right. The point has stayed with me for all these years. We are living history right now. Ours, our community”s, our country’s, the world’s. What or how will we remember it.?

Some parts will be traumatic and our body’s will remember. Some parts will give us joy or bring a tear to our eye when we recall them. Much will be forgotten and much will be remembered differently by our brains, then how it really happened. We will ‘rewrite’ a lot of history as we retell it years from its happening.

What do I remember and why and even how? are great questions to ponder today.

Ive had many moments that I wished could hurry up and be history. Long years of struggle and discomfort. Long years hoping against hope that things would improve.

Which they always did. Then there would be something else. In and around and in between there have always been wonderful moments. I aim to make the most of those sweet times and play down the less favorable. So when I look back, I will have fondness for my life and myself in it

This is way easier said than done and certainly easier to do in some circumstances, but not others.

I send you love for this complicated life you are all living in today. Hoping you will have some nice Wednesday moments as you live history.