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How Else Can You Remember Your Youth?
Besides triggering your five senses, Choosing Therapy, Healthline and Greatist have also provided me with ways to jog the memory of your youth… Three other ways in which you can jog your memory are:1. Reminiscing About Past Experiences2. Looking At Childhood Photos3. Visiting Places From Your Youth You can see me explore this in more detail…
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Why Have You Forgotten Your Youth?
After reading many articles across the internet, Choosing Therapy, Healthline and Greatist have all helped me to see other ways in which one may forget their youth besides aging and becoming focused in adulthood… 5 reasons why you may have forgotten your youth:1. Aging – The older you get, the more memory fades. 2. Mental…
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illusion/elusion
My mother had a knack for writing things down. Quotes. Thoughts. Phrases. Words. Figures. She wrote her memories. Penned her grouses. Recorded by writing the wrongs people had done her, in the same way she put the dreams she had on paper when she awoke. She put her aspirations up on the walls to see.…
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LOSING PATIENCE
I am inside a Soca fete thinking how living in the moment makes life better. Jamming on a bumper, I take a sip of my drink and throw my eyes to the open sky. It is a clear one. Clear and black. I am revelling in the beauty of the moment. I have learnt the importance…
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REDISCOVERING MY FAVORITE MOVIE
Xavier Thomas| Blog Prompt 7| November 20th, 2023 assigment The ability to Remember things comes with its positives and its negatives. One can rmemeber some of the best moments of their life and look back to the past filled with glee. On the other hand, one can remember all the hardships they have faced, the…
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AMNESIA: TRACING SHADOWS OF THE PAST
Xavier Thomas| Blog Prompt 6| November 13th, 2023 Amnesia, one of the most heartbreaking disorders causes one to forget themselves, their culture, their past, and their entire identity as a person. It is the crippling thought of one day not knowing who you are or where you even came from. It is the haunting idea…
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LONG WAY FROM HOME.
Xavier Thomas |Blog Post 5| Setting is more than a place| All my life, all I can remember is the constant heat of the sun radiating over my head. the smell of the fresh grass, the sight of the dogs running around on the street playing with one another, the repeated kick of a football…
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A Hundred Things to Learn
Consider the long-term ripple effects of amnesia on future generations. I think about the way I don’t eat roast dumplings. I’ve seen my mother make it a dozen times at country by the coal fire but I was never interested in learning to make something I wouldn’t eat myself. I don’t how to make hot…
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Sunday School
BY JAMILLA MORGAN I was there for the food – guava jam on diagonally sliced white bread with the crusts cut off and Tang. Yummy! That part came later. Now I had to sit and wait but I wasn’t worried. The food never usually ran out and I was with my friends. I was sitting…