Hey guys!

Michael’s entry surrounding the question of whether or not memory can be personal anymore has really got me thinking. He acknowledges how when you see something with your own eyes there is no room for questioning because you experienced it first hand. However, I believe that the time after you experience something is more important than the immediate moment that you witnessed it. You cannot remember something in the moment as it has yet to become a memory. I believe that how you remember that moment has much more to do with who you surround yourself with, as Farhat Shahzad charts, your “interpretive communities”, rather than how you experienced it in the immediate moment. Understanding this, I am very confused in what I know to be personal and what I know to have been influenced by others.

I know that wasn’t much help, but it got me thinking!

Devon Coady