Things I Forgot To Remember
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History seems to whiz past us when our memories are best at retention of it. So much is worthy of recollection, whether it is our own or someone else’s. Herein is a crucible of short stories that touch just about every topic that ever crossed the human mind. They range from sheer comedy, parody, gossip, satire, irony, shame, vanity, to moments of history hidden from us until the people possessed with using the “Freedom of Information Act” discovered their purpose in life.
Should the reader remember or recollect some of the contents within this memoir, perhaps these stories can be enhanced with one's own memories or versions of events, embellishing them with custom-made, and perhaps, first-person connection to them.
The trick, of course, with your own custom-made embellishments, is to try out a few and see which ones get the most positive traction, and then remember them.
Keep in mind that your most successful stories will probably be retold manifold times by others who will surely personalize them, and in doing so may just enhance the opinions of others of how fascinating you and your fables have become.
The only hazard employing this kind of story-telling is remembering those to whom you repeated them. If you don’t, you’re vulnerable to be included in the fuddy-duddy pantheon of oldtimers telling the same tired tales, the kind that trapped you in the past when oldsters felt compelled to give you their boring and unending life histories.
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Combinations to memory vaults often get lost with the incursion of age. This is not to say they cannot be retrieved by certain spoken words, visuals, or listening to stories that remind you of what you’ve forgotten. Reunions are prime gatherings for exhuming half-buried tales worth re-telling because of the reactions they precipitate from listeners. From gut-wrenching laughter, tears, sadness from discovering who passed, and incredible stories told from the lips of those least expected to tell them, fuel the adrenaline of shocking the brain to say, “That reminds me of . . . ” And then, you’re off and running.
Most of the funny things that happened in people’s lives were not amusing at the time they occurred. Time has a wonderful way of exposing and reversing situations to tales of interest worth retelling. The problem, of course, is to remember the combination to the repository in which they’re kept for recalling.