For most of us, memories of our day-to-day events and those of the recent past have a familiar, mundane quality to them, but memories of our early childhood take on a brightly colored, almost magical quality. My Aunt once told me that this is because children come so recently from God. I wonder if this is true-
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@mchill saidThis is because, psychologically, when people remember a painful event, they remember what happened (burning your hand on a hot stove, for example) and that is was painful, but the memory itself is not the pain (except in rare cases of trauma). Whereas, when people remember a happy event, the memory itself can make one feel happy again.
For most of us, memories of our day-to-day events and those of the recent past have a familiar, mundane quality to them, but memories of our early childhood take on a brightly colored, almost magical quality. My Aunt once told me that this is because children come so recently from God. I wonder if this is true-
The reverse also sometimes happens, in nostalgia, where people believe the past to have been better than the present. It isn't so. Most of the past was much the same as most of the present, but our memories play tricks on us.
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@mchill saidI wonder! Do you have any childhood memories of your own on coming from God?
For most of us, memories of our day-to-day events and those of the recent past have a familiar, mundane quality to them, but memories of our early childhood take on a brightly colored, almost magical quality. My Aunt once told me that this is because children come so recently from God. I wonder if this is true-
And how would your aunt know where children come from?
@pettytalk saidYou're missing the point here. This has nothing to do with my memories of coming from God or my aunt's exact knowledge of where children come from. This was just idle speculation based on the fact that most people's memories of their early childhood are slightly different than those of the recent past.
I wonder! Do you have any childhood memories of your own on coming from God?
And how would your aunt know where children come from?
