Forgotten

There are times when I'm by myself and trying hard to remember something - usually a specific memory, perhaps due to a dream I've had or a particular event that's taken place, although mostly I find myself trying hard to remember certain memories from my childhood or teenager years which just seem to be forgotten or lost in transition.

Although I've learnt about the human memory in Psychology quite a bit, I can't help but wonder what happened to those memories I once had and remembered so well but suddenly became patchy. The weird thing is, I remember remembering them (if that makes any sense). There are moments that I can track back to and see myself thinking about those things I now cannot recall clearly. It's strange. I don't know if it's a case of neglecting memories or just simply having forgotten them.

There's this picture that keeps appearing in my mind. It's of me as a baby, at the crawling-stage, climbing the stairs whilst the house was dim lighted and reaching the top of the stairs and I know, nay, I am very sure that something happens after that yet I can't seem to recall it accurately. It's frustrating.

On a completely different spectrum of thought.. I think it's useful when somebody forgets something. It can actually work to their benefit. Although, more on this later.