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The Vault of Memory

It’s wrong to think that events stored in the vault of memory are preserved for all time, only to be uncovered by the ardent seeker. Many reminiscences, the majority of them are deleted. There are no traces of them as if the episodes they illustrated never happened.

How can we account for such acts of vandalism in the inner archives of the self? The only way to explain such massive destruction of accumulated data is to blame the neurochemical storms that play havoc in the meteorology of the brain. Memories are chemical structures subject to molecular upheavals. In this alchemy, change is inherent. That’s why writing a diary is an endeavor to preserve events, to crystallize them into sentences and paragraphs, and by exposing them to others, they can live in other minds and survive the passage of time.