Have you noticed yet in your own experience that memories take up a lot of your experience? Much of a person’s life is occupied by memories that they keep reliving. Usually, that isn’t really a big deal, but a memory is just a snippet of information about the past, which is very hazy a lot of the time, quite often very fallible, and mostly just seen through your perspective.
It’s really quite miraculous how we can experience something and then have it kind of stored like a photo / video that gets replayed. And each human’s capability to access these seems quite varied as well.
The problem that arises is that some people stop living and are stuck in their mind recounting the days that have passed, whether they were great or miserable. Usually, the latter takes the prize because the negative is where a lot of people reside in. They even extract their worth from them.
You are not your memories. Enjoy them, learn from them, but don’t forget that life is constantly moving. Live in it, or else life will be going on right in front of you, but instead of you being there, you will always be living with a sort of lag. Only when you don’t live fully involved in each current moment will you always be clinging to the recollection of it after the fact. This moment right now is always enough because it’s full in all dimensions, while our mind’s snippet of the past is mediocre at best. When those memories start fading more and more, a person who primarily lives in memories becomes disconnected because they haven’t lived in reality, but in the snippets of the past about reality.
You can see this lack of depth in a photo or a video, as they never fully do justice to any experience. The Grand Canyon isn’t just some colours and shapes. It’s a living thing and you will only experience that if your full being is there.
This is also why much of our world is zombified. Most people see images and videos and from those they think they understand the complexities of life and other people. Enjoy memories, but don’t become an addict, or you might go on living the rest of your life in 2D, while you were given the capable of living in multidimensions.
Image credit:
https://www.deviantart.com/iaiart/art/Memories-1-2-976751894