Everyone has days in their life that are life altering, days that make such an impression you never forget them. It may be a happy event, a shocking event or something tragic but none he less something about it causes it to be more prominent a memory in your mind. Not an ordinary day. November 22, 1963 was such a day. Most people can tell you about that day in their lives. What they were doing, the emotions of the day. 9/11/2001 was another such day. The day Dale Earnhardt died was another. All these days impacted so many lives as well as the closest family members in a way that they would never forget the memories. While these days are associated with tragedy not all days that we remember so vividly are. Other days that many people remember are the birth of a child, a wedding day, the day you accepted Christ as your Lord and Savior as well as others. Sometimes it is even an otherwise seemingly ordinary day but something about it causes it to be a special memory.
Why do some days and events leave such vivid memories? I don't think this is an question that really has an answer. The human mind is so complex one can never know what triggers these memories.
I for example have a vivid memory from my childhood where I couldn't have been more than a toddler and it involves a house where we lived and the memory of brushing our teeth on the back porch because we did not have an indoor bathroom back then. Another memory that has molded who I am today is when I was little we went to visit our great grandparents one time and my great grandfather was ill. I did not give him a hug and kiss when we left because I was so shy and backward and that was the last time I saw him alive. I always felt sad because it would have been so easy to have given him that hug and kiss. It was my loss. Because of that situation I make it a point to always make sure the people I love know it.
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