Theme 28: Memories
Pairing: PruCan
Date Written: 25th September 2013
If you think about it, who are you? You could tell me you are you, a human, a girl or a boy, young or old. But what are you really? In high school science you are taught that everything is made of atoms, right? Well, then you should also know that atoms constantly replace each other and that every five years we have all-new atoms than we did in the five years preceding that. So then, who are we? My theory is that maybe, just maybe, we – our true selves- are simply wandering conscious', made our experiences, our views, our lives.
Memories are part of this, in fact, memories, more than anything else, seem to govern who we were and who we became and who we will be. So, you can say that memories are the one of the most important aspects of being us, being human.
What happens though when you have memories that stretch the length of not a hundred years, nor a thousand, but thousands of years? What if you had memories of every single war that took place on planet Earth? What if you had memories of every king, queen, prime minster and president who ever rose or fell? It's an interesting question isn't it? Not just in a philosophical sense either.
But, philosophically and psychologically, it is a condrum. There is one question that seems to stand out among this. What would you remember? We can only hold a certain amount of knowledge in our brains, no matter how vast. So, what would we remember? Could we choose to forget some things and remember others? Would we be forced to forget?
I have someone I want to remember. He is like me, though maybe a bit shorter and a bit cuter. Would I forget him if I lived for another thousand years, another hundred, another day? It's that question, and the questions behind it, that lead me to desire to never be apart from him. It's that single question that makes me wonder, is being a nation, a blessing or a curse?
I'm not about to let some slack-jaw scientists do some experiments on me, but it's still an interesting idea.
So let me ask you.
Who are you?
