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But what if those things are NOT still there after all? What if forgetting about something made it cease to exist? What if all of creation hinged upon the importance it had in someone's memory? If you show God a ball, and take it away, does God remember that ball still exists? 01 - Revisiting Old Wounds - In which our Hero begins his tale. Like any good story, he gives you the Cliff Notes in how he came into himself. I'm sure that he included me in the description. Or perhaps he didn't, as his exclusion of me was the beginning of the problem in the first place. After he tells you the sordid story of me, you will see a healing, which is of course the beginning of the end. 02 - Kay Aye Ess Ess Aye En Gee - In which our Hero gains an inkling of the adversity he will face. It involves a pleasant walk in the snow, a simple phone call about someone long forgotten, and an excursion to an old haunt in the woods. I miss that old tree; it's a shame that it doesn't remember me. Our Hero is beginning to revisit the past; it's enough to make me maudlin. 03 - The Place to Be - You can run from danger, you can run from a decision, you can run from trouble. What you can't run from, however, is a thought. The more you try not to think about something, the more it gets stuck in your consciousness and lies in wait for you to find it again. All it takes is just one more push for it all to come crashing out. 04 - A Trip Down Memory Lane - With time comes acceptance, and with acceptance comes curiosity. Join our Hero as he begins to explore the surface of what is happening to him and come to grips with the fact that his life will never be the same. Literally. His life is now different than what it once was, and he questions why and how. 05 - Something Real - I always found it strange that right when you want to pull away from everything, something comes along to stick a thorn in your side and drag you back to the real world. That's what happened when I met our Hero for the first time, and that's what happens to our Hero here. Of course, it always makes it worse in the end. 06 - Missing Volumes - Our Hero finds true love at last, how sweet. That sort of love can help you find back against all kinds of topsy-turvy world shaking events, which is just what our Hero needs right now. Of course, I just can't have him hanging around with any sweet young thing he finds. After all, he's mine, and I'm coming back for him. 07 - Reach Out and Touch Someone - At last our Hero comes to it - my motivation for being here, my reason for existence. Tired of drifting like a leaf in a wind greater than he understands, he decides to fight back, the sweet boy. Despite my best past efforts, his first step in fighting is with someone else. Silly, silly, and wrong. His next step though, that's perfect. His next step is me, and I'll show him how wrong he is. 08 - Are You Going to Scarborough Fair? - We finally have a good opportunity for conversation, and our Hero bails out and runs. He didn't want to be late for his date. Well, that's fine, that's understandable. But I'm not going to let him off the hook that easily. We are going to have a little talk, just the two of us, and no one is going to stand in my way. Image by Nick Bergeron Copyright 2010 |
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When we are children, our world is without shape or form. Show us a ball, the ball exists. Remove the ball and it does not. Our world begins and ends at the reaches of our perception, and only the development of memory allows us to form the building blocks from which we construct our reality. When the ball is removed, we remember it, and now that even if we cannot see it, it still exists. Everything that we see and know is built upon our memory, including ourselves. We are creations of our own experiences, whether sharply recollected or dimly. As our memories change with time, so in turn do our personalities change, as we forget and forgive, and as new memories inform our older ones. In a way, we exist only as the reflection of everything that has come before, knowing that somewhere out there in time or in space, the things we have seen are still there.