What People Remember Shapes Their Understanding Of Themselves And Their World1
What people remember shapes their understanding of themselves and their world.
Who are we and do we even understand ourselves in our space before we try understanding anything else? In our rather busy lives today, we sometimes forget to take deep breaths and look at ourselves for who we really are. Our memories are there to guide us to establishing who we are. The line between selective memory and short term memory is dependent on our world. What we chose to remember someone else doesn’t and it all comes down to our uniqueness in our own worlds. Memories help shape our reality and their everlasting presence is a privilege that we have to understand ourselves as soul entities in our own worlds.
Our memories and experiences from a young age shape our reality and what we see as our identity. As youngsters our understanding of who we are is very little. We are often too worried about seeking adventure and amusement that we do not take into consideration much our identity and who we really are. We all have an identity and how much we understand of it has a lot to do with how our memories and experiences have shaped our realities to who we are today. Through experiences and memories we build for ourselves a reality and we can see this through Keith and his experiences with his domineering father. Through experiencing abuse from his father and control, Keith builds a reality for in which he mirrors his father’s trait in possessing dominance and control over his one and only friend, Stephen. This signifies how Keith’s experience leads him to hold an identity of an oppressor when he is in is his own playing field with people his age. Likewise, as we go through school we see bullies and right them off as horrible people. But often are these bullies’ victims themselves of abuse and themselves use abuse on others to free their minds of the burden of their own trauma. What they understand of their identity consists of oppression both on the receiving and distributing ends of
Who are we and do we even understand ourselves in our space before we try understanding anything else? In our rather busy lives today, we sometimes forget to take deep breaths and look at ourselves for who we really are. Our memories are there to guide us to establishing who we are. The line between selective memory and short term memory is dependent on our world. What we chose to remember someone else doesn’t and it all comes down to our uniqueness in our own worlds. Memories help shape our reality and their everlasting presence is a privilege that we have to understand ourselves as soul entities in our own worlds.
Our memories and experiences from a young age shape our reality and what we see as our identity. As youngsters our understanding of who we are is very little. We are often too worried about seeking adventure and amusement that we do not take into consideration much our identity and who we really are. We all have an identity and how much we understand of it has a lot to do with how our memories and experiences have shaped our realities to who we are today. Through experiences and memories we build for ourselves a reality and we can see this through Keith and his experiences with his domineering father. Through experiencing abuse from his father and control, Keith builds a reality for in which he mirrors his father’s trait in possessing dominance and control over his one and only friend, Stephen. This signifies how Keith’s experience leads him to hold an identity of an oppressor when he is in is his own playing field with people his age. Likewise, as we go through school we see bullies and right them off as horrible people. But often are these bullies’ victims themselves of abuse and themselves use abuse on others to free their minds of the burden of their own trauma. What they understand of their identity consists of oppression both on the receiving and distributing ends of