Recovering Memories

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?

If I lost all my memories one day, obviously the first thing is to find out who I really am. I will turn to my family first because they have the best understanding of me. I may go to the place that I have been living with them and listen to them how I have grown since a child until now and. Hopefully, the house that I am live in, my bedroom, may give me a lot of image flashes in my mind or the pictures on the desk can help me to identify who I really am. Friends who really care me probably will come to visit me after they hear what has happened to me and they may provide a lot helps for my memories recovering. They can tell me how I have acted when I am chilling with them and bring me to some places where I have always visited. Since I am still a student, I will also want to walk into my school and try to find any memory back from there. I will quietly listen to every sentence that people have told me about my pass and look around every place I have gone carefully and combine them to find out how I have been living before.

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.

During the first few days after I lost my memoires, definitely I will be very scared and nervous with a pure strange world in front of my eyes. I may not even recognize my parents, my family and my best friends but I believe I will be very relieved to the first nice person I met after I lost my memories. Second step, after I verify the people who are really important in my life, such as my family and friends, I will trust and start to be curious about what kind of person I am before I lost my memories. Obviously, people around me will want my memories to be recovered therefore they will try very hard to help me. They may be very happy when they see a little signal of my memory recovering but also may be very disappointed if this is just an illusion; and I will be very depressed and upset for disappointed them. I may feel lost when I am standing in a place where I used to come a lot but not feeling familiar any more right now; and also I may be very sensitive and panic when a person who I should of know suddenly come to say hello to me on the street when I cannot recall who that person really is. However, after I can finally catch a little bit of memories flashes in my mind about my pass, I will feel so excited and hopeful for my memory recovering.

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.

I won’t want to lose any memory from my pass, no matter it is positive or negative, painful or cheerful, and I will want it all back. To me, anything that has happened in pass is a fact, an experience and also an evidence for proving what situation I have been through in this world. Some people may rather forget about some negative or painful memories which they wish they will never recall, however I think once a thing become a memory then most effects it brings are positive. Failure memories help us to get succeed on the next time; painful memories indicate such a harsh thing has happened in our life; and obviously happy memories should never be forgot. Therefore, I will not pick the memories I wanted to recover but just all of them