One of the subjects that fascinates me most as a person and as a researcher is memory. Memory as the ability of the human being to keep memories. I worry about the arbitrary and fortuitous way of storing those memories, and especially the random way of rescuing them. We can believe that we have kept the memory of something and when we go looking for it, we simply do not find it. Or to find that our memory brings back the memory again and again of an experience apparently insignificant to us, but that appears like ants when they see honey. The phenomenon of forgetting and remembering can become something really inexplicable.

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One of the memories that interests me the most is what experts call "daily memory". The daily memory is the one that usually happens in the daily life of people, which helps to remember names, places, activities, elements of their daily life. Sometimes we can forget where we left the keys, or what we went to look for in the kitchen and even what we were going to say to a person. All these forgetfulness have to do with the continuous and incessant memory that human beings experience on a daily basis. Among the reasons why we don't manage to fix a memory, I think I said it in a moment in a previous post (forgetting), is because we are not conscious when we carry out or experience this activity. In the case of everyday memory, custom, habit, helps to strengthen memories and make them "fresh" or easier to recover.

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There are moments when we cannot evoke memories, even if we want and strive for our memory; but sometimes a simple gesture, smell, landscape makes us revive a system of memories that had long been forgotten. Although more than forgotten, we would have to say that it was badly placed, abandoned somewhere in the memory, until a simple accident or signal brings it back to our present. In some cases, those past memories are so clear and vivid that they can nullify the environment in which you find yourself and take you to the environment where you experienced those events you remember. This so casual and unpredictable way that memories have to appear, leads us to think that the problem is not to store them, the difficult thing will always be to recover them. It would be easy if they were ordered as in a file, in order of size or in alphabetical order, so when we needed it, we would go to the corresponding drawer; but the thing is not so easy.

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Surely, at some point, we will have smelled a fragrance that not only reminded us of a person, but also of the time when we knew him and even of the experiences we had with him. During the moment that the memory lasts, that evocation is so complete that it forces us to abandon the present, to go to the past, to inhale the distant air but so close, that we can revive, almost photographically and intensely, what we have already lived. All the senses, not only the olfactory, awaken to the stimulus and make a direct bridge with yesterday.

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There is a famous and beautiful love poem entitled Come back of Constantino Cavafis that I would like to give you today. The poem says:

Come back often and take me,
Beloved feeling, come back and take me -
when the body wakes up,
and an ancient desire goes through the blood again;
when lips and skin remember
and hands feel like they touch again.
Come back often and take me at night,
when lips and skin remember ...

This great poem tells us about how memory is lodged throughout the body. And it is because the body also has memory. We are able to relive not only experiences, also feelings, emotions. The mouth can shiver at the memory of another mouth, the body bristling when recalling another body. Relive each sensation, bring to our present the pleasure, taste or joy that could be lived in a given moment, it seems really magical. But extremely painful, if the experience was traumatic, painful and sad. Because it would be like living it not once, but experiencing it every time it is remembered.

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Yesterday I was reviewing an album of photographs and many of the images brought me passages from a life that, unfortunately, will not return, but that I can relive every time I open that album. And it is that some memories are worth bringing to our present, not only to continue living, but to remember that at some point we were happy, although we are no longer. Perhaps reliving those moments, the body remembers something and smiles.

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BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE

http://www.ccram.sld.cu/Infogen/4psg/2cogni/memoria/memoria2.htm
https://lapoesiatoda.wordpress.com/2017/04/21/vuelve-de-constantino-cavafis/
Written by: @nancybriti

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