Monday, 11 March 2013

The Land of Forgotten Memories

"There exists somewhere in a parallel universe, a Land of Forgotten Memories.
 I know for sure because I've been there."
 This world is an open place, easily accessible but difficult to leave. The land exists in levels. A visitor enters at the lowest point, where memories have entered the land and are still memories. They have been forgotten by the people who created them, but only just. Somewhere on the borderline of your mind, they still float, unsure of where to go. But they don't stay here long. In a little while they move to level 2. Here they are completely  forgotten and are thus no longer memories, but forgetems. This is a term used for memories which are forgotten and will in all likelihood never be remembered again.
Its an interesting story of how these lands got created. Once upon a time, many years after our very own universe had been created, another parallel universe was on the verge of being formed. The Creator (as we shall refer to him), decided that as man's brain developed, he'd have many more memories, soon too many for our own universe to handle. At the same time, it wasn't fair to man to discard these memories. Some brought him joy at being recalled, some brought sadness, some brought anger, but most of all, man seemed to have learnt the most out of these memories. They helped him grow. So the Creator fashioned a parallel universe, running alongside ours, to store them.
Almost like an archive. It worked well for a while. But soon the memories multiplied beyond control and they got completely jumbled up. It became difficult for man to extract the required memory. And even if he did succeed in doing so,more often than not it brought other irrelevant memories to mind as well.
"This won't do." thought the Creator. Things had to get more organized. And so he split the universe into a number of sections, each designated to a certain kind of memory. These sections were called 'Lands'. And so got created the land of happy memories, sad memories, memories to be learnt from, memories that instigated anger, memories of data, funny memories and the list goes on. Among these lands is the land of lost memories. The land a the end of this universe. It is the darkest, most morbid land ever created and is a constant threat to the other memories, for nobody wants to end up here. Nobody and nothing wishes to be forgotten. These 'forgetems' are memories of people, places, incidents or all together, which have happened at a certain point in time, but being of either no consequence to anybody or very painful they have been forgotten or blocked out respectively. For example, when you left your residence to go to the bus stop in the morning, you might have passed certain people on the street. However, being absorbed in your own world, you failed to really notice them. And so, the incident is forgotten and filed in the Land of Forgotten Memories.
(to be continued)




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