memories

{02.26.2017}

Memories are the brain's way of maintaining our sanity, recalling the things that made us happy: good people and good times.

But memories don't always work in our favor, sometimes they can tear you apart. They can easily take advantage of the depression that people have, quickly making the condition more severe at times. Almost as if saying, "You feel awful right now? Remember what happened before?"

Memories have the power to make you happy at the end of a bad day, or cry yourself to sleep at the end of a good day.

They have more power than we assume that they do, because here's the tricky thing our brains do: They take and save every single one of the bad images and insults and make sure they stay in our stockpile of things to make us feel like trash. We only sabotage ourselves, why?

Because we don't remember the good things. We only remember the positives when they become negatives. We remember happy moments with ex best friends, boyfriends and girlfriends, but only after everything is over. After there's no hope for there to be happiness in it again.

We recall the times that made us smile, only to remember what will never happen again and instead to make us cry. Because memories are the most powerful thing, with the ability to trigger feelings in a split second that we weren't feeling a little while ago. Memories are associated with certain feelings and emotions and can trigger them in the exact same way and the hurt is the most memorable, and that's why we hold onto them, because we never remember the happy parts while they're still happy for us.