Shortness of Memory

Shortness of Memory

A lot many days have passed since last diary writing. Lot of water has flown though the Ganges but in this dairy the world has stopped as if. I am embroiled in myself and my laziness and mind’s deliriums have not made me to write. This habit only has stopped me bring a regular scribe. What comes into the picture - the irregular, stray and jigsaw sketch of events? Neither there is good and true sketch of the events into the picture, nor does the mind ’s good representation also makes its imprint - only the bleak footprints of time. Although there is so much on daily or hourly basis that if it is quantified, shall be more than consumable even in months. There are daily newspapers, magazines, internet material, stories, essays, biographies, auto-biographies, discourses, etc. Millions of persons of the world contribute in increasing the printed material. Day by day number of literate persons is increasing. There happens so much in one day that it is physically impossible for one to go through its details. World is very large and what we come to know, is a very small fraction of the happenings / events. In such a situation, how can we remain connected to the flow of world's life?There is so much all the times on TV channels, albums, music, religious discourses, philosophic / spiritual explanations, adventurous events, sports activities, scientific inventions, discoveries to explore our owns, sea explorations and every such event, etc. A little bit which seems as important becomes  the news and comes to us through various means. But importance of one news of a particular place is not as important or relevant to another place. 

But the events are continuously happening to all the persons all the times - good or bad- may be recognizable or not. Many a times, the events don’t remain relevant or known or remembered to one even after a small time. They are just happening as if we are made for the happenings only. Are we more than that even? Are we not consisted of events or can we say that we are only the events? We exist because there are events - what does it mean? Perhaps it means that we are eternal at any stage of life whether childhood, youth, old or whether in sleep, awakened, lazy, active or so. We know selves for a brief period of time by remembering our past since say the age of 6 or 7 years - that too the events more important. 99 % of events are forgotten, and only the rest lives in the memories. Sometimes we are able to make a little sketch of them, and many a times remember a few things only after a long time. We tend to forget events on day to day basis but may remember some continuum of that particular spell of time. We can say that this is the footprint of particular period of our lives. Only few events remain recognizable after sometime. I suppose that a person will be able to recapitulate a very slight of his whole past after sometime. It is natural and nothing can be done to it. But if we are able to catch our lives on day to day basis, we are perhaps better able to explore it, mention it and keep into records for a longer time.      

Pawan Kumar, 

24th April' 2014 Time 23:54 Midnight

(From My Dairy 19th August'2007)