Capturing Memories

Why is it that we want to capture almost everything around us, to keep it as a memory?
Probably our biological hard disks, our brains, alone are not enough to save everything we do and want to remember. On the other hand we have memories we would love to erase if we could, bad or shameful experiences. Sometimes we are not able to make ourselves forget those memories.

From the prehistoric times on humans started to make cave paintings. Drawings and paintings have been important tools to keep memories. One of the other media was through memorizing songs or poems in order to pass important information on to younger generations. When we learned how to write, we started keeping diaries and writing books. In this way we could share our memories with an even bigger audience. From last few centuries on things went very fast. When photography and film cameras came, we were able to capture every tiny detail of our lives. When you go to a birthday party, on a dinner, on holiday and so on, we always carry our photo cameras. If we don’t have those, we at least have our cell phones with build in photo cameras. So not to worry, anywhere we have the opportunity to capture that memory. And what to say about this blog? This is capturing a memory too. With computer technology introducing the Internet to us, explosions of memories have been fired; they grew like weed and invaded the Internet like germs. There is zero wastage of memory. Is that the way we want it?

In fact our whole history is one big memory. We want to use memories to learn things from the past, to remember how we should do things, how much progression and evolution has been taken place from time to time. Most of the time we want to have our memories so we don’t forget what good moments we shared in our lives. Our precious memories, the whole process of capturing them in our brains or with other media, it still seems all very magical to me.