Frozen

A totally unrelated post.  Sometimes though, you just can't stop the pen from writing what it wants to write.  Thank you, Facebook buddies for telling me to do nothing.  It worked.

~Frozen~

Ever wish you could make time stand still?  The scene before you captured; locked away in your memory forever, ready to be recalled at a moment's notice.  How often we fail to remember what we promised ourselves we would, or worse still, what we wish we could.  That moment you so cherish loses small details over time, a snip here, a bit there, until you can't even remember the year in which it happened.  It seems so important when you first commit it to memory.  "I will never forget this," you say as you lock it away in the safety of your long-term memory.  When you try to remember though, you realize you've placed your special moments in the hands of a false security.  Sure, you'll remember the important things- the way your grandfather's signature joke lit up the room no matter how many times you heard it; how it felt at 2:00 am laying deliriously on the floor with your best friend, talking about nothing and everything and life and death and all the important questions.  However, the small details of those frozen frames have a tendency to melt away.  Lost forever in the hapless depths of your own mind.  What was the punchline of your grandfather's joke?  What was it your friend had said that suddenly made you see things so clearly?  And thinking about it, its those little details you long so desperately to remember, grasping out in the velvet darkness of your brain, listening to the cruel taunting of your "safe" long term memory as it teases you with "I can almost remember".  But you can't help it.  What can you do, except keep searching and in the meantime, replacing those disappearing memories with the new ones you are bound to make?