Moshe Israilov’s Who am I?

After getting hit in the head by a hockey puck during a Ranger’s game, the doctor in the ER told me that I have retrograde amnesia. As I begin my process of recovering my memory I turn to my best friend, Michael, because he knows the most about me and I trust him to tell/show me any experience that I would want to remember.
I would assume that we would proceed by looking at pictures of my childhood (from birth to 10 years of age), there aren’t pictures that I have that aren’t cute, so that would start to refresh my mind. We would then go to my elementary school because that is where I made my oldest friends. Next would be the playground because that’s where I was a normal kid who just ran around and played tag. And lastly would be my first two apartments in Queens and my brother’s first two apartments, so I could remember my experiences with my brothers and my older brother’s kids. The places I would avoid would be where I went on vacation, Toronto, Massachusetts, and Virginia, because I wasn’t myself during them and there were parts that I wish were different. I would assume that while I go through this process, I’m going to be open minded and look forward to continue on through the path that I’m on now.
I don’t expect to go through an emotional journey because the emotional memories are the ones I’ll try to avoid, like my old crushes and when I learned that marriages do not always lead to happiness. The one good thing that comes from losing your memory is that you stop constantly thinking about the real emotional experiences in one’s life.
In all, the memories that I would choose to reminisce are the happy ones, where I win awards, have fun, meet good people, and prove people wrong when they don’t believe in me. At the same time, I’m one of those people that wouldn’t mind forgetting embarrassing moments and mistakes, even if I could learn from them, because you could learn by not making them too. Lastly, I would especially try to avoid the memories of me getting angry, because I get unreasonable and do things that I regret.

P.S. Idea for the title of this post came from “Jackie Chan’s Who am I?” Its a movie about a former villain who loses all his memory and beats the bad guys.