Memory, the lost object
In 1995 the Greek director Theo Angelopoulos made the film ‘The Ulysses’ gaze’, a meditation on the value of memories, of those lost and those found.
What’s a memory?
Each individual guards, protects and preserves joyful and painful memories.
Memories are the foundations on which we build our personal history and the world to which we give life.
THE SPIDER’S WEB
Consider for a moment all the memories you have accumulated throughout your life.
Few or many, each memory is linked to another memory of yours and that of other individuals.
Memories form an iridescent spider’s web-like, and someone gets trapped inside it occasionally.
Never linger too long in the memory of the good times gone: the sweetness and joy in remembering will inevitably turn into nostalgia.
And nostalgia can poison every moment of the present time.
Never tie your daily life to the pain you felt and the revenge you still crave for past events.
Let them flow like the river, which remains unchanged even if the flowing water is never the same.
HISTORY
In a superficial and banal way, we could define history as a selection of some memories over others; in short, as a selection of events considered, rightly or wrongly, as worthy of being handed down.
The story we study is only ONE path among the many that arise simultaneously from a given event.
However, we don’t know the memories of all the participants; we don’t know the story of the multitudes who created that same event.
The story comprises only what is left among billions of ignored, forgotten memories.
COLLECTIVE AND INDIVIDUAL
Memory is also essential to who we are, both as a community and as individuals.
A personal value is that truth that pushes us to act.
And, thanks to memories, the life path and the experiences we made to achieve that value constitute our most authentic wisdom.
NEVER FORGET TO REMEMBER
Therefore, Ulysses never forgot Ithaca, the place from which he had departed and to which he would belong forever.
And like him, we should never forget who we are and where we come from to get where we want to go.
Remember not to forget, ever.
Until next
Daniela
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