Everything we experience is nothing unless we can remember it. You could be in agonizing pain for hours on end, but if you couldn't remember any of it, it may as well have never happened, amirite?

+208 Everything we experience is nothing unless we can remember it. You could be in agonizing pain for hours on end, but if you couldn't remember any of it, it may as well have never happened, amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I can't remember my birth.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

If you cut off your arm, and you can't remember it, you're still missing an arm.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Or if you got cut really badly and it left a scar

by Anonymous 11 years ago

If you can't remember getting your arm cut off, you have a problem. Anyway, this is about experience, not consequences. If somehow you can't remember losing an arm it might as well have magically disappeared in your sleep.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yes, you're missing your arm. But, say that your arm was violently hacked off, and you were awake for the whole thing. Now you can't remember it. Your life goes on without fear or emotional wreckage from that encounter even though if you could remember it, you would be completely emotionally scarred.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

This logic reminds me of the short story "No Particular Night or Morning" by Ray Bradbury (from The Illustrated Man) where one astronaut goes crazy because he can't accept anything without physical proof. At one point, he convinces himself that Earth never really existed because he can't physically see it and touch it.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

This is what I told myself before getting shots as a kid. "5 seconds and then it's over!"

by Anonymous 11 years ago