How Does Your Memory Work?

The video made me notice that memory is the most remarkable trait I posses. I take memory for granted because luckily I have always had the gift of remembering most things. As we grow up memory becomes fundamental almost as common as breathing. What I learned through this video is that there are many consequences to the loss of memory and unfortunately there are many human living without being able to remember a single thing. As life goes by many memories we have from childhood start falling apart. Our memory shapes our personal identity, our perception of life, it shapes us. From birth our brain is changed by our experiences. Our memory stores a collection of vacations, friends, books, movies and all of our experiences. Unluckily, those who have memory deficiency are not able to have a past or a future; they only live in the present. By the age of nine, if your memory is working well, you gain the ability of time travelling in your mind. What is special about humans is that we are the only animal that knows about yesterday and that is why we want to keep living. Memory also gives you the ability of abstract thought and imagining things because of your experience.

Memory also gives us the skill to plan. We can think about actions in the past and therefore consider actions in the future that help us survive. We should be grateful for having a well-working memory because it will help us to survive, develop, speak, problem-solve, prove and many other abilities that come up through the pressure of memory. All of these abilities are not offered to people with memory discrepancy.