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For this week’s TITMT, Janet used a modified version of a question I sent to her. This week’s question is about your memory.
“What is your earliest memory(ies)? and adding my own personal touch, why do you think this memory has managed to hold such significance over the years?”
My earliest memory is very brief. I remember being in the backyard of my house with my mother. She was sitting in some kind of lawn chair reading a book. I looked up, probably because I heard a noise, and saw one of those small airplanes. This one was dragging one of those advertisement banners behind it. Being less than two years of age and having never seen one before, I was quite excited by the site. That’s pretty much it.
Why is this memory significance? It’s not, really. It’s next to void of emotional content. I think the reason is because I identified it as the earliest while I was still young. What’s strange is that I don’t remember when I first tried to identify my first memory. But the result of that first attempt yielded the answer I gave above which helped reinforce it in my mind. Since then, it still returns to me now and then.
Hmm, I have a few memories from when I was very young, and I don’t know which one comes first.
One is being at a barbecue at my parents friend’s house, and getting in trouble for jumping on his bed. I remember thinking “What’s the big deal? Jim doesn’t mind, he’s cool.”
The other is riding a camel through Egypt. I was sitting behind my dad. We rode the camels to some sort of tent where they were selling scarabs.
I think I might remember the camel thing because I was a little kid who liked animals. Also, my parents must have bought a bunch of scarabs, because I still have some. Maybe seeing them all the time growing up helped anchor the memory.
Not sure if its the earliest but once upon a time I was fishing with my dad. I caught something and spent ages trying to real it in. When I finally got it just out of the water my dad saw that it was a sting ray and cut my line. I remeber it becuase I was so upset that I had put all this effort into catching my first fish just to have dad cut my line and let it go.
Geeze, I spent a lot of time thinking about what is the earliest thing I remember and I realized I don’t have very clear memories. The only thing I remember from being a kid is sitting out in a car with my brothers in front of my grandma’s house. I was very little, maybe 3 years old so nothing is clear except it was rainy and might have been nightfall. The weird thing is that even though I don’t have a clear memory of this, I remember it not being pleasant mood wise. Something always tells me that there was nothing positive surrounding the memory and that could be the reason I don’t have a clear recollection.
I wonder if our minds just catch on one day and whatever lucky thing occurs that day happens that day gets to be the first. I guess we may never know. Thanks for the idea (and contribution) though!
I, like Santini have a very poor memory of my early years.
http://www.spiritualtramp.com/2008/02/earliest_memory.html
My earliest memory was being in the hospital jumping up and down on some bed or crib? The doctor had his stethoscope on me (of course back then I didn’t know what that was). I don’t remember what I was doing then (I think maybe I was a year old?).