If you died tomorrow, and you could only take one memory with you to comfort you for the rest of eternity (assuming, of course, that that's how your afterlife plays out), which memory would you take?
Also, which is better: expectation, or fulfillment?
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By the way, my answer to the first question is dependent on the answer to the second question, of which I'm not entirely sure.
ReplyDeleteI'd probably take a memory of sitting aroundtalking with you at college or in Japan; it's as close to contentment as I'd be able to get in the memories I currently have in stock. Even though there was/is a lot of background stress, it was a way of putting that stuff aside for the time to relax.
ReplyDeleteAw, that's sweet.
ReplyDeleteNothing personal, but I'd take a specific memory from my time with either of the two girls that have made the biggest impact on my life (thus far, if I may dream). Again, which one depends on the resolution to the expectation/fulfillment question...
And just to be perfectly clear, that first statement was spoken with a tone of sarcasm.
I don't blame you, but I don't really have any great memories with either of the girls I wish I did... And even if I did, they'd be tainted with the bittersweetness of melancholy.
ReplyDeleteThe memory of a time when I thought I was about to die. If I'm existing off of one memory for eternity, surely nothing will come close to being as fulfilling as the thought of death.
ReplyDeleteFor me expectation is only fulfilling when I'm delusional enough to believe that it can happen sometime. Not that this doesn't happen often. Pure fantasy, now... it's similar but different.
If I had to choose a warm/fuzzy memory, that would be hard, since I can't recall memories at will. They only happen when they happen.
The idea I'm going for with "expectation" is that of expecting fulfillment, but not having it yet. I mean, if you don't actually believe you'll be getting that fulfillment, then you're not really in a state of expectation, are you? You're in a state of desire, wanting fulfillment, but not expecting it. Right?
ReplyDelete"We hold these truths to be self-evident..."
So the memory you'd choose to keep you fulfilled in the afterlife, while you're fulfilling the experience of death, is a moment of expectation of death, of which you have currently fulfilled. God, you have to make everything so complicated...
ReplyDeleteEternally expecting fulfillment? So it's what, a tantalus trap?
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