Reply to Sam- Antonio Hill

there's some things in life that you just will not be able to forget no matter how much you want to forget it, like deaths in a family. other things like a wedding or your high school prom, you'd want to keep those type of events in your mind. well, unless your high school prom just went horribly wrong. personally, i don't remember a lot of things about my past and i sometimes wonder if that's a good thing or bad thing. i'm more of a visual person, so if i seen something or someone before and i see them again i can remember them. however, if you ask me about them when their not around i will be blank minded unless you describe them in complete detail. its a flaw of mine i always looked down on. i used to always say that i wanted to be one of those people that remembered eveything. something like the human version of an elephant. elephants remember everything if you didn't get that last sentence. but i sarted to think again, is it always good to remember every single memory? you'd have to remember the deaths of people that you try so hard to get over. you can't forget the fact that someone did something bad to you, like hit you or stole from you, and you'd hold a grudge because you can't get it out of your head. so is it always good to lock down every memory? throughout the entire "True Notebooks" book, the prisoners and even Mark speaks about how they would have kept on doing something. Mark talks about the book he wishes he kept writing, the boys talk about how they wish they could have kept going to school rather than joining the gang; from pages (50-whatever). its hard to explain.