Book of Questions #4

[Ebony AKA AngieJ]

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> 4.  If you could spend one year in perfect happiness
> but afterward would remember nothing of the experience
> would you do so?  If not, why not?
> 
> 	**Auxiliary question : Which is more important:
> actual experiences, or the memories that remain when
> the experiences are over?
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Whoa.  What a question.  

My answer would be *yes*, as long as I was unaware of the fact that I 
could not remember it.

Last semester, in one of my seminars, we talked about memory 
formation and how our narrative formation is affected by this 
process.  Fascinating stuff... I watched my grandfather struggle with 
Alzheimer's until his death two years ago, and it's only recently 
that I've realized the importance of remembering.

Both the actual experience and the memory are important, though.  I 
can't think of which I'd value more.  My first instinct is to 
say "actual experience", but I'm a nostalgic person, so...

--Ebony (who realizes that this post may make no sense)