Free Write - Memories

Julia gave today's Free Write Prompt, Memories. Hopefully, next week, we'll be back in the same country, Switzerland together, sipping coffee, tea and/or hot chocolate in one of our favorite cafés as our pens rush across the paper for ten minutes.

Julia's Free Write Memories

The good, the bad, the indifferent: oh no, that means I am thinking of Old Westerns!

But who cares, I’ve accumulated them over the thousands (28’052) of days that I’ve lived.

Some became highlights, some faded into insignificance, but the mind is a wonderful thing and can pull out some from its’ multitude compartments in nanoseconds, in fact so many that I haven’t a fighting chance of listing them all, even were I to live another 100 years and we all know how unlikely that is!

It is interesting that one often first remembers the difficult or challenging only by dint of true application does one recall the outstanding, in my case perhaps because there have been more good than difficult.

Then there are those of life-changing moments and decisions.

But, regardless, I gather them all, like a shawl around my shoulders: Memories, proof that I have lived.

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D-L's Free Write

Whenever she heard the word memories, she immediately thought "turn your face to the moonlight" and the blasted song from Cats rang through her head the rest of the day.

Usually when she heard the song for real, something bad happened: she'd lose her keys, get a flat tire, etc.

On the other hand, when she heard the song Willow Weep for Me, something good happened: an old friend called, she'd find $50 on the sidewalk and no one was around to return the money to.

At the risk of sounding Sesame Streetish, memories and music both started with the letter M.

As she drove to work, the radio played Memories. Five miles later there was an accident. Damn it, the memories curse was holding true. 

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Rick's Free Write

I have only good memories.

Thanks to my ability to block from my mind any negative events.

Memories, it seems, reside somewhere in the deep recess of the mind and only come to the fore when triggered by something we see, something we hear, someone we meet.

We all, I think, have a litany of stories that we retell, especially when talking with someone new. I sometimes suggest we need fresh friends because the current ones have heard all my regular stories and jokes.

But sitting here, trying to write about specific memories, my mind is oddly blank. No triggers.

Childhood? Milestones? Marriage(s)? Children? Grandchildren? Friends? Travel? Places I’ve lived? Politics (no more)? Food? Animals?

Too many to choose.

Yet nothing comes to mind.

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