The Value Of Your Positive Memories
Positive memories provide stability. They are also safe havens and have the special ability to protect us.
The brain is able to store, organize and prioritize all your memories. Psychologists have actually used the computer metaphor for many years to explain how the brain works.
They no longer do that. However, it can be useful to compare your memory with a computer. Your memory is the city of memories.
Psychologists believe that your memory is closely linked to your emotions. That is why you can bring back the original feelings of an experience if you focus on your memories of that experience.
Positive memories can bring you peace and heal your hurt self-esteem. The flip side, however, is that if a memory is unpleasant, the last thing you want to do is remember that event.
The value of positive memories
Some time ago I heard a beautiful story about the value of memories. In May 2017, a 14-year-old boy, Patryk Lessman, was on vacation with his family near Lake Jeziorak in Poland.
The young man amused himself building castles and fishing in the lake. One day he found two old metal milk cans buried in the woods. He immediately told his parents what he had found. They told the local authorities. They then went back to the site with metal detectors to search for more objects.
They carefully analyzed what they found. Months later, there was a press conference about the discovery. The two milk cans contain personal items and family mementos of Count Hans Joachim von Finckenstein who once owned the farm.
Count Hans Joachim von Finckenstein
In the old milk cans they found many documents, including the last will and will of the count. The authorities also found the seal and coat of arms of the von Finckensteins.
They were an old aristocratic Prussian family. They even found Hans Joachim’s passport and a World War I diary there. Inside the two container they found his World War II uniform and letters and poems from his daughters.
Hans Joachim von Finckenstein was born in 1879 and lived through two major wars. In the summer of 1944, Hans Joachim and his wife Hildegard sent their daughters to Pomerania to protect them from the advancing Russian army.
Pomerania was an area located between Germany and Poland. Hans Joachim and his wife remained in Poland and hid from the Russians.
Bringing back stories from many years ago
The researchers found Waldtraut, the Count’s youngest daughter, in Germany. She is now 81 years old. When she saw the objects they had found, she became emotional. She picked up her father’s slippers and held them tight. She cried for a long time.
Waldtraut told reporters she was used to standing on her father’s slippers when he put her and her sister to bed. She also told how they would laugh and play until they fell asleep.
She could still recite some of the poems she had discovered by heart. Many of those poems she had written seventy years earlier.
With tears in her eyes she told this to the journalists who interviewed her: “ I have always wanted to write. My mother encouraged me to learn to sew and embroider. However, it was clear that books were my thing. ”
Waldtraut also remembers the storms during the summers at Lake Jeziorak and the smell of wet earth.
“ During those endless afternoons when we couldn’t leave the house because of the rain, I would recite poems while my sister played music to enliven the sunset. The whole family loved to watch this spectacle. It was a wonderful time in my life and now I have it back thanks to these mementos, ” she told reporters.
Your positive memories
This story reminds us how beautiful it is to live life to the fullest and to be motivated by real and profound desires. It urges us to stop procrastinating or hiding what we’re feeling.
It is easy. Every moment is as magical as you choose to make it. If you could design your positive memories, how would you do it? What would they look like?
