I was thinking about memories one day, and suddenly decided to figure out my earliest memory. I was dismayed to find that the earliest one I could remember was 1st Standard, the colour of the round badge I wore on my tie and the bus I went to school in.<\/p>\n
I looked at old photographs of mine, and tried to figure out if I could remember what was happening while the picture was being taken. I saw the badge and the uniform, and wondered if my mind was playing a trick on me by ‘creating’ a memory from the raw material available. ( since I must have seen this photo earlier many times)\u00a0As the photos became more recent, I could remember more and more, and recent photos, especially the travel ones, still seem fresh. But for how long?\u00a0I began to wonder if all those vacation photos and the\u00a0lifestreaming<\/a>\u00a0is a wasted effort. Thankfully, I document a lot of things, creating as many memory aids as possible. Videos help too, and yet…<\/p>\n A relative is traveling to the Czech Republic. A couple of decades ago, the currency and capital would’ve been ‘delivered’ (in my mind) without prompting, or being asked for. Now I probably have to google for that data. But I remember the prayers I used to say daily then, and from the order in which I can chant them, I can even remember the way the deity pictures were hung in the room, though I haven’t said those prayers regularly in years. Ditto for certain Carnatic music\u00a0kirtanams<\/em>. \u00a0Practice may or may not make perfect, but it certainly fixes it to memory, along with a ton of associated memories from another age. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n I wanted to augment this post with something\u00a0Anu<\/a>\u00a0had shared a while ago on Twitter – a post titled ‘The unaugmented mind<\/a>‘, which is on the same topic. The irony was that I remembered that she had shared it, but had no idea on the source itself. Thanks to my own twitter backup and a third party search tool, that was remedied soon. When she shared this, I remarked that I remember weird things I mostly found unnecessary and said I wished we could choose the things we wanted to store in our memory, like virtual world filing systems. Sometime soon, I hope, but I doubt whether even the perfect documentation would capture the way we felt then, because we will have changed. But maybe\u00a0the augmented human<\/a>\u00a0will change that too.<\/p>\n until next time, what’s your earliest memory? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was thinking about memories one day, and suddenly decided to figure out my earliest memory. I was dismayed to find that the earliest one I could remember was 1st Standard, the colour of the round badge I wore on my tie and the bus I went to school in. I looked at old photographs […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6055,1479,98,412,6268],"tags":[1963,1090,536,1031,1962],"class_list":["post-5766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-human","category-thoughtstream","category-future","category-life","category-self","tag-augmented-mind","tag-lifestreaming","tag-memories","tag-photographs","tag-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5766"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15416,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions\/15416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}