1. How would you begin the process of recovering your memory? Who would you turn to, where would you search, and how would you proceed?

In this process of recovering my memories, I would first look to my family members to help guide me through this emotional journey. Having no recollection of my past, I’d be very cautious on who I can trust. I would go through all my belongings, pictures, social networking sites and phone just to familiarize myself with what makes me who I am and to see what kind of relationships I had with my friends. I would possibly create a facebook event asking everyone to explain the type of relationship I had with them, whether good or bad, close or not. This way, I can try to figure out who are my real friends and who are just my acquaintances.  I think it is best to recover the latest memories and work my way back to when I was a child.

2. Please describe the emotional journey you imagine you would be going through as you attempt to reconstruct your life. Imagine the feelings you would have.

The thought of having no recollection of my past, a life that I once lived but do not remember is heartbreaking and devastating. Knowing myself, depression is not something that is unusual for me so this whole process of trying to remember will definitely put me in a dark stage. Loneliness is something I will feel often, only because everyone is still a stranger in my eyes. Also, my lack of patience will trigger a lot of anger and frustration with the super slow process of trying to remember every single event that occurred in my life.

3. Suppose you were able to pick and choose the memories you wanted to recover from your life. What types of memories would you choose to retain and what types of memories might you decide to edit out of your remembered experience? Positive, negative, painful, happy, angry, frightened, etc. Please elaborate and explain some your decision making process.

Although life is a learning experience, if  I was given the chance to forget some of the events in my life, I would. Of course, I’d recover all the happy memories but some events in particular don’t necessarily fall under the category of memory but instead, just a bad dream. I don’t think these events were necessary in my life. It seems to be a distraction of the happier things I can be reminiscing about.