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Childhood memories!

  • #Laypalik
  • Apr 11, 2017
  • 2 min read

I always wondered how come I have memories of a certain period of my life and I have amnesia for other. Why I retained a part of my life better than the other? Then I came across couple of articles and it made sense to me as to how a child’s memory works.

As everyone has different claims about how old I was when handed over to my adoptee parents, I can't really ever know for sure my age at the time. But I can guess I was young enough not to remember it at all. I feel at total loss no matter how hard I try but I have no memories of me with my real parents at all.

My memories are sometimes very clear sometimes just like dreams. For instance, I remember my school in Gujarat ( a city in Punjab Pakistan) slightly and our little house. I also remember that one of our family friends who was my father’s friend had catering business and he catered for my birthdays always. I also remember we had a parrot in that house. One day while playing I fell down on a heater while my grandma was sitting on bed in the center of the veranda. I was burnt and still have marks of those burns.

Then in next scene I remember my house in Sahiwal (city in Punjab Pakistan). It was grand, we had so many rooms and so many servants. My father was promoted to being a District Engineer. This was a wonderful period in my life and I remember alot from this time.

My mother told me stories about my childhood how I used to wear my father dress shirt after coming back from school and pretend to be a teacher to a set up class with no students of-course.

I do not recall ever my real mother approaching me to hug or love although my real father when used to visit us, used to love me like an uncle.

There are no baby pictures of me except one where I was probably couple of years old in my grandma lap.

I feel all my memories that lasted with me carried alot of emotions and but the ones I do not remember perhaps had no emotions attached so are lost in space. I feel like I have complete Amnesia about my early childhood except what my adoptive mother told me.

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/04/08/299189442/the-forgotten-childhood-why-early-memories-fade

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/07/why-childhood-memories-disappear/397502/

 
 
 

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