Fifty First Dates By Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot’s argument discusses how “many people believe that to move up the ladder of success and achievement, they must forget the past, repress it, and relinquish it.” Although many people may think this, I believe that memories are what allow you grow and continue prosperity in your life, whether it be a personal experience or not, memories push people to grow based off of past mistakes and encounters. I disagree with this statement and believe that memories help people in their efforts to learn from the past and succeed in the present and future. First, an example of growth through memories is known in common faces. Celebrities have been known to experience breakdowns and then grow and learn from them. The first example of
Henry replays the memories of all his one-night stands and realizes that, that isn’t what he wants for himself or his future. Henry Ross falls in love with Lucy, who has short-term memory loss and ends up helping her remember her days by teaching her unknowingly to write in her journal every day and even making a video of all her loved ones so that she would be ‘caught up’ from where she last left off. Henry helped Lucy by bringing back all her past memories and helping her move forward, the constant reminder of what she had forgotten, helped her move forward in life, she would have been left in the same place her whole life, but Henry allowed her to move passed the day she last remembers. Although she had endured many hardships before getting to where she was, Lucy and Henry both ended up traveling, married, and with a child by the end of the inspiring love