Memory

Memory is an interesting thing and the conversation that we had on Tuesday intrigued me. We were actually talking about about events that would be happen to a person and how one person could remember something completely different than another. On Thursday though the question was posed why had she returned home. I put this question posed on Thursday together with what we were talking about on Tuesday dealing with memory. We are all going to remember things differently, especially places that we have lived and things we've experienced at this places. The cliche' that the "grass is always greener" I think applies to both this story and many other things within the world. The main character acts like a rebel in her home country as though she only wishes to get out because the world is so much better on "the other side", then when she is out she only wishes to go back. I think that she remembers things slightly different than when she was actually living in the midst of it, and that is because she felt comfortable there. The idea of comfort and memory goes hand in hand, the memories that one is going to keep, especially when you leave and dislike a place or the people, you're going to look back fondly on comforting memories that may have not really been there.