I do think that the memory is a faculty of man, one of the six actually; the other five being the imagination, the reasoning, the perception, the will, and the Intuition. I do believe that each of these is spiritual.
I think that our memories contain information about the things we have read, studied, heard, seen, and done. The memory houses everything that we have experienced throughout our lifetime.
I think that the memory never completely forgets whatever information it has received except that something happens to it. Same way, I think that each of us has different remembrance strengths so that while some of us have great and almost automatic recall, some of us have short recall, if not often forgetful and this affects our attention span.
I think that the memory plays a game with us periodically. It brings up some information that have been stored previously to our recall without us soliciting for them.
What that means is that we can suddenly remember something that happened some years ago. Sometimes it could be over 10 years ago and we know we didn’t remember them since the past 5 or more years. This game is a very curious one.
Whenever this inopportune and unsolicited recall happens to me, I better watch it because sooner or later, within the course of the day or not later than the next day, I see it either play out again in my own life or another person’s life.
It teaches me to caution myself. When it happens to me, I watch with it and I am better guided. If it happens to someone else within my sphere of influence, it means that that person may require my support.
Oftentimes, if it’s a negative experience that I escaped by the mercy of someone else either by virtue of their position or some other, my own position becomes required to save or help someone from a similar experience I had suffered, but escaped from.
I have watched this play itself out many times and this has left me in a place of better appreciating the reason for which the memory was given. It’s also let me caution myself about the activities that I engage in and permit in my life.
Whatever you would not like to remember or be reminded of by your memory, my counsel is that you should stay away from it, if you can avoid it. Whatever it is, avoid it.
Do not visit a place or site that your memory will turn around to haunt you with its remembrance. The moment you have encountered it, you may never be able to obliterate it because it goes into your subconscious; and at that level, you have no control of it.
You are the author of your own good or bad fortune. You can make or break you, really. You can, indeed. Your memory is a powerhouse.
