We review the past with the common sense, but we anticipate the future with transcendental senses. We believe that the possibility of the future far exceeds the accomplishment of the past. There’s things that happen in a person’s life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there’s no forgetting them. You can go to bed every night thinking about how much fun you had twenty years ago, and it all comes back clear as moonlight. The best thing about hunting and fishing,’ the Old Man said, ‘is that you don’t have to actually do it to enjoy it.
To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush the great blue heron from its silent occupation, scatter marsh hens as we sink to our knees in mud, open an oyster with a pocketknife and feed it to you from the shell and say, ‘There. We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are. We need to have human beings who are oriented that way from their earliest memories. We’re never going to have respectful and reverential relationships with the planet- and sensible policies about what we put in the air, the soil, the water – if very young children don’t begin learning about these things literally in their houses, backyards, streets and schools. Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. They become indispensable to our well-being they define us, and we say, I am who I am because I have been there, or there. There are certain villages and towns, mountains and plains that, having seen them walked in them lived in them even for a day, we keep forever in the mind’s eye.
It happens that we return to such places in our minds irresistibly. There is a great good in returning to a landscape that has had extraordinary meaning in one’s life. The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
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How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really.
How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by…not paying attention? Joshua Foerīecause we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
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