December 15 – 5 Minutes Imagine you will completely lose your memory of 2010 in five minutes. Set an alarm for five minutes and capture the things you most want to remember about 2010.
My God. How depressing. Okay. I'm going to skip the alarm bit as I don't feel like I have even that much time to think today.
What would I most like to remember? I would like to remember how incredibly helpful my family and new acquaintances have been with the art tour. I have been in contact with my Grandfather's cousins, people I have never met. The notes, photos and additional information have been instrumental in the life of this massive art tour project. The kindness of people can almost bring me to having quite a strong emotion, one of great gratitude that nearly makes me have a little tear in my eye. I would also want to remember receiving my Roberts Radio as a gift from my husband. That was ace because of what he said it represented. He said that it was to show me how much he supports me working from home, creating my little artworks. We have had our disagreements in the past regarding my jobs (sometimes various, sometimes lacking). And the shock of seeing a photograph of my Dad with a full grey beard.
What would you like to remember from 2010?
*Update - as of right now, we are only 3 comments away from Hay Heart being tacked down.
... we MUST get 2 the flagephant!!!
Posted by: Lisa | December 15, 2010 at 05:36 PM
This is an interesting topic for me, because if the whole of 2010 was suddenly stricken from my memory I would wake up 3 stone heavier and about 100% more healthy. So, that would be a huge jump.
Seeing as this isn't that sort of blog, I will not talk about wanting to remember all the great sex that I had this year. That would be weird, too, to wake up and only remember all the hanky panky that you got up to. I just read about a version of the afterlife where you relive your life in sorted order, so after sleeping for eighteen years you go to the toilet for five months. I guess only remembering the one thing would seem like that.
Perhaps what I would want to remember would not be the gradual strength returning to me, the travelling to see loved ones, the holidays abroad, but instead the mental process that I got to work on this year; the ideas of freedom and creativity that I had a chance to think about because I was too incapacitated to do anything. But really, what I would want to remember is how to juggle four balls, because that took ages, and I still haven't mastered five. However, I would be more than happy to forget all the time I have spent dropping all the balls and then picking them up again, because I'm not too attached to those memories. They can go.
Posted by: Pete Hindle | December 15, 2010 at 08:36 PM
Hi Pete,
You are quite right. This isn't a sex diary. Buy hey, thanks for playing.
Actually, you can't have been feeling too completely devastatingly bad if you were able to get up to a bit of that during this very difficult year for you. As I know your story (just a tiny bit) I think you have done well to scrape out some good bits in an otherwise terrible year, or two, or are you going on three now? That in itself is a wonder. I remember when I was ill in bed for weeks on end and couldn't even find the strength to put pen to paper. I busied my head with thoughts of 'when I get better, this is what I'm going to do'and thinking about how much I desperately wanted to claw back any thing that remained of my former life.
That book sounds interesting. Care to share the name? In another comment. Not only to add to the numbers, but because I am actually interested.
Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment.
Posted by: Cassandra | December 16, 2010 at 10:11 AM