SPECIAL MEMORIES

SPECIAL MEMORIES AFFECT OUR FUTURE

Who could ever forget 9/11.

That fateful day in September 2001 when we awoke to the horrific sights of huge passenger planes crashing into the side of the twin towers of the World Trade centre in New York.

The pictures are indelibly etched into my memory and will have an influence on the way I live life in the future.

So will the pictures of the heroes of the recovery process giving of themselves beyond their human ability to search for just one more survivor.

Those are the memories of 9/11 I choose to remember.

I can also remember just as vividly as a young child, my dad taking me for walks after school, and ending up at the local milk bar and having a milkshake together.

The annual holiday together as a family, or the special nights at home when mum would bake her home made pasties. Our whole family would help get all the ingredients ready.

Those and many other memories are ingrained into my subconscious and all have a part in making me the person I now am.

It is amazing to me how such simple activities can stick so deeply into our memories and actually shape the kind of person we become.

The truth is that I have had many good and bad things happen to me, but I made a conscious choice many years ago to keep alive the good memories, so that I was not dragging a past of unforgiveness, or hatred, or anger with me throughout life.

I chose to carry all the good memories with me into my future, and amazingly they have helped me believe in myself and others, and allowed me to look forward in life with a positive and optimistic viewpoint.

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