I was lying in bed last night just remembering things from my past.....and it suddenly occurred to me that if, for some reason, all my memories disappeared I would really miss them.....
So I ask you guys, if your memory was going to go but you could choose to save just one memory....which memory would it be?
Its a hard choice for me, but it would probably be my Grandparents Golden Wedding Anniversary Party because all my family were there and we all had a wonderful time....
New Years Day 1994
Aaaahhh....the stuff that dreams are made of.
:rose: :rose: :rose:
Edit/ Can't say my kids b'day's....with hind-site I should have eaten them.
i have 3 memories
1) the day that i went in to london before she had her brain tumour op. i knew this could be the last tim ei saw her alive - luckily it wasnt.
2) The day that Patrick Viera gave the welsh wizzard the ball and Manu Won the F.A cup. This is joint with winning the trebble.
3) making cress men at nursery!!!
MIkeC
Selifish mode activated:
When the doctor wrote on my medical notes " no longer obese. " after 6 months on the ****** diet. :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: and that after being classed as obese for 12 years. Oh what joy to read those words.
Awwww I'm getting all teary-eyed at all these lovely responses....
I have another one......The day I lost my virginity.....weird but very special to me.
Oh Oh Oh and the day I graduated from Uni, knowing that I had achieved something worthwhile......
Excellent question. Have been wracking my brains and it seems to keep coming back to the same time.
Talking to my Nan, when i was a kid, listening to her as she spoke about living through the Blitz in east London and getting blown up, about how she met my grandad and marrying him while he was on leave from the Navy. So many many stories from just sitting around her kitchen table....some of them really funny, and some horrendously awful. But would never want to lose them.
Ta Helen!
Great question.
I've been thinking about it for a while, and I think probably the whole night of my 21st birthday - I had a party at home, and absolutely everyone I knew was there. Old friends from school who I hadn't seen for months, new friends from uni, friends I'd met travelling in my gap year and not seen since, family friends who've known me since I was born, family who live in South Africa and I hadn't seen for years, my boyfriend, my parents and brother and sister. It was so wonderful having everyone I loved in one room, and watching all the unlikely groups that formed and how well everyone got on with each other, when I'd been a bit nervous that lots of people wouldn't know anyone else.
oooh must be a good question DreamerH.... you have had a rare reply from the elusive makingcocoa !!!!!
good to see you posting makingcocoa...
Feel for you - I have the same memories xxx
Sorry Helen but i would have to keep two memories......as i have two son's and i cannot choose over either of their births.
Excellent topic, Helen.
I may have to come back to you again on this as I've only been thinking about it for about 5 minutes.
In that time the memory that I relish most is the moment I decided to stop drinking. That was more than 17 years ago.
(Due to blackouts, I don't have too many memories before then. Not true.......just being flippant again).
I've tried and tried on this one and I cannot pin it down to just one memory - I am currently at 16. If I get it down to 10 - I'll let you know.
My memory is on the sort of the same line as MR TIgs.
instead of losing my memories i'd prefer them to be tranfered to someone....
i'd like to keep all the memories of my mother before the terrible thing that is called drink took hold of her and changed the life of 6 people for ever..
but give the remaining memories to my mother for the 15 years she missed out throught constant drinking..
Jiggle
maybe im sad, but i wouldnt mind loosing all my memories, theres alot i could do without remembering................................except mine and mr bailiffs first kiss, id want to remember that so i could remember who he was if i lost my memory. Am i the only person that loosing my memory wouldnt bother??
louxxxxxxxx
oh theres been a few trips ive bin on i suppose u cud count them in
Mine has to be the Mid Wife slapping my wife when our son was born. God he was ugly, about 2 weeks late, forceps bumps on his head and really dry skin.
Mind you, a week later he was beautiful and is now a handsome young lad
An extremely emotional memory, both happy and sad, which eclipses many others in my life, would have to be a telephone call I received from a Captain in the Royal Marines in 1982.
Jon and I had been married for only 10 months and I was seven months pregnant with twins
Jon was serving with the Marines in the Falkland conflict and I was staying with my parents while he was away.
One particlar night there was a report on the BBC news of heavy casualities in Jon's unit
After trying for over eight hours to get through to the number given for casualty enquiries, I left my details with a very understanding young woman on the helpline.
She promised I would receive a call soon to let me know if Jon was amongst the injured or dead.
Four days later and no sleep in between, eaten nothing, but spent the whole time crying with my mother, I received a phone call from a Captain who informed me that Jon had been located amidst the melee and was safe and well.
My relief was absolute and I was so exhausted I could hardly speak. It was a most profound moment where my life and that of our unborn babies seemed to hang in the balance.
It's extremely upsetting to even think about it after 23 years, but it is one memory I would not want to lose all the same.
Tracy-Jayne