I’m studying The Contaminated Cupa incredible detective novel.
Assume “Sherlock Holmes set in Westeros.”
The primary character has this augmentation that enables him to soak up each element of each interplay, crime scene, after which recite these precise particulars at a later date.
I keep in mind a horrible Black mirror episode about this particular factor: with the ability to keep in mind each reality of each interplay previously.
Right here's the issue: In all of those eventualities, the info could also be true, however analyzing these info nonetheless leaves a whole lot of room for enchancment.
I've been enthusiastic about this rather a lot not too long ago once I got here throughout two tales I wish to share:
“The past is not true» by Derek Sivers:
After I was 17, I used to be driving recklessly and crashed into an oncoming automobile. I came upon I had damaged the opposite driver's backbone and he or she would by no means stroll once more.
I carried this burden with me all over the place and felt so horrible for thus a few years that at 35 I made a decision to search out this girl to apologize. I discovered her title and deal with, went to her home, knocked on the door and was answered by a middle-aged girl. As quickly as I mentioned, “I'm {the teenager} who hit your automobile eighteen years in the past and broke your backbone,” I began sobbing – an enormous ugly cry, bringing out years of remorse.
She was so candy and hugged me and mentioned, “Oh my darling, my darling! Don't fear. I'm positive!” Then she accompanied me to her lounge. I walked.
Seems I misunderstood.
Sure, she fractured a couple of vertebrae, however that by no means stopped her from strolling. She mentioned “that little accident” helped her pay extra consideration to her health and since then she has been more healthy than ever.
SO she apologized for inflicting the accident within the first place. I apologized.
And that story about “the good old days” from the creator Morgan Housel:
Just a few months in the past I reminded my spouse how superior it was [life was in our early 20s]. We had been 23 years outdated, gainfully employed, and dwelling in our model of the Taj Mahal. This was earlier than children, so we might sleep till 10 a.m. on weekends, go for walks, have brunch, take a nap, and exit to dinner. It was our life. For years.
“It was the head of life, nearly as good because it will get,” I advised him.
“What are you speaking about?” she mentioned. “You had been extra anxious, scared and possibly depressed then than you will have ever been.”
…In my head at present, I look again and suppose, “I will need to have been so blissful then.” These had been my greatest years.
However really, on the time, I used to be considering, “I can’t look forward to these years to be over.”
It makes me suppose rather a lot in regards to the previous and our future. Seems neither is ready in stone!
What previous historical past are you able to rewrite?
Because the cliché goes, it's simpler to attach the dots wanting backwards than forwards.
Is there a narrative out of your previous a few particular second that you simply nonetheless carry with you?
It might be a disgrace about one thing that occurred, but it surely led to one thing even higher for you.
Perhaps it's a need for a previous life that by no means actually existed.
The previous has already occurred, however that doesn't imply it's set in stone!
Return to Sivers:
“You’ll be able to change your story.
Precise factual occasions signify solely a tiny a part of it. Every thing else is perspective, open to reinterpretation.
The previous is rarely over.
I wish to know what story you inform your self in regards to the previous, good or unhealthy, and resolve to rewrite?
-Steve
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