Saturday, September 29, 2007

A memoir (unrelated, required entry)

The formation of memory is such a mystical phenomenon that it can be difficult to comprehend and put into words. It seems to simple and natural to humans but understanding memory formation and the nature of what memory is can be a very complex and daunting task. Without reducing this entry into nothing more than a biological lesson on how the brain works, I will attempt to explain memory in a more simplistic and psychological fashion. Memory is love and hate, memory is life and also death, memory is the great times and the not so great times, what im getting at here is that memory is derived from the experiences in everyday life. Memory is a record of the moments that most make us who we are as humans. Every moment in our love is filed in our minds and the most extroardinarily beautiful (and sometimes ugly) moments are the ones in which we most remember because those are the moments that shape our lives. Memory comes to humans naturally because if we didnt remember our past then we could never change our future. Without memory we would forget our mistakes and never advance ourselves as human beings.

A memoir is a nonfiction story extracted from a writer's mind and is usually a very important event or events that altered the course of their lives. A memoir is a great way to create nonfiction writing and utilizing some of the unforgettable moments that have shaped our lives. It is crucial to use memoirs as a tool to potentially aid people to avoid certain pitfalls the writer has experienced or memoirs are great ways to simply better future civilizations. Memoirs are unlilke biographical writing in that memoirs are much less chronological and factual and more about feeling and drama. Many famous people in history have written wonderful memoirs that have shaped culture and present day civilization.

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