Journal created:
on 10 August 2000 (#77)
Updated:
on 18 June 2011
Name:
elessara
Birthdate:
20 June 1980
Location:
Arlington, Virginia, United States
Now: i believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becoms water overflowing into an already full cup. New experiences just don't register in the same way or with the same impact. i could be shooting heroin with the Princess of Wales, naked in a crashing jet, and the experience still couldn't compare to the time the cops chased us ater we threw the Taylors' patio furniture into their pool in the eleventh grade. You know what i mean.
i think Cathy at some level also felt this way, too - and that she realized all of her important memories would be soon enough taken - that she had X-number of years ahead of her of falling for the wrong guys - mistreaters and abusers - and that all of her memory would then be used up in sadness and dead ends and being hurt, and at the end of it all there would be... nothing - no more new feelings. -douglas coupland
i think Cathy at some level also felt this way, too - and that she realized all of her important memories would be soon enough taken - that she had X-number of years ahead of her of falling for the wrong guys - mistreaters and abusers - and that all of her memory would then be used up in sadness and dead ends and being hurt, and at the end of it all there would be... nothing - no more new feelings. -douglas coupland
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