It sucks when you have promising ideas but lack the time necessary to expound on them and write something interesting or funny. You try to hold on to the idea or write it down somewhere but inevitably the memory fails or you lose the scrap of paper you scribbled on. At some point you just give up and hope the idea will return to you or a new one will pop up.
It’s amazing to me how the memory can be so unreliable and downright faulty. “The simple act of recalling a memory makes that memory vulnerable to transference or other forms of distortion.” I heard that from a tv show last night on History Channel I think. Transference in this sense is the replacement of one person place or thing with another. Think about that. Every time you recall a memory, or attempt to, you risk losing it or at least changing it. That’s just fascinating to me…
