Memories

Usually my memories of childhood are good memories. I think that usually we remember more of the good things that happened rather than the bad things that happened. This might be because your brain is protecting you from feeling bad or depressed. It's like when something terrible happened, sometimes you lose all memory about the terrible incident and this is one technique the brain is helping you cope with the sad event that occur. It might be repressed into your subconscious because it is so bad that it does no good from remembering such a terrible event. The reason we remember things is to help us survive and reproduce. Memories are useful in that you can learn from your mistakes and teach your offspring of the mistake so they don't make the same mistake that might very well endanger their life, therefore, increasing the probabilities of living and passing down the genes. We remember bad things because those are the mistakes we made but some things are so terrible that remembering those would impede our ability to function because we can't process if we are currently thinking of the event. When we remember bad things, we only remember portions of it. For example, I get in fights a lot when I was young. Once during kindergarten, a classmate scrathed my face and my face was bleeding all over. I remembered the fight but I didn't remember what caused it or what happened after. However, I remember when I went to New York when I was 5 and I had a popsicle of multiple flavor and color and I had it all over my mouse. It might be because of the pictures that reminded me but I also remembered the flight, when I was at my aunt's house in New Jersey, when I we were walking down the street.