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Learning the Memories  by Sandra Lynn Mallo Adcock

Is being reminded the same as being remembered? That would be so much more kind if that was the case. Yet, truthfully how many reminders does it take to make a memory? Did you always do chores on time, home work, or other things that took reminders? Memories are usually made in an instance or out of loved routines. I remember "Sandy dishes," out of a hatred of chores and trying to escape it. Still, it took twice as long to learn the time to do dishes as the recipe for French toast!

I devoured Space facts but often must check my grammar and spelling three times. Being reminded, means you really would rather forget because it's a bother to commit to storing it to memory. A memory is usually, if one does not need a reminder, formed from a strong association. My father could be a strong disciplinarian and set strong boundaries for us. However, we played hard and all together. I have two brothers and a sister. Even when we did chores, thanks to Mom, we had fun between the four of us. She put out a set amount of money around the house where we were supposed to do our chores. She knew how well we had cleaned by the money found.

Now if are talking about objects we buy or keep as reminders being the same as memories, that is a different question. In that case reminders are not the same as being remembered. The objects jog our memories of a sweeter time when life was uncomplicated by time that marches on or the heaviness of adulthood.

Being remembered is that the same thing as a reminder? I suppose an object or the something it does can jog someone's memory of me. I have been told this before. Often children remind their 

parents of themselves because of their looks and mannerisms.

I will be remembered as a reminder this way only if my son has kids. If this happens, there will be generations of people remembered, maybe not in name but in cumulative stories of reminders of traits passed down through families. Thus, I would say in the final analysis over all, reminders are the same as being remembered if you have a family.

The last case where a reminder can be the same as being remembered, is if a person gets in the history books for some reason, writes, or becomes famous for something. Here is where an object becomes a reminder and this reminds the person holding it about the person that is famous for it. Is this one reason we all want to write? Do we seek to be immortalized in writing? Do we wish to remind the world we want to be remembered? These are the answers you hold within yourself.