This thing called memory

I love the quote below about memory from one of the great authors of our time. It speaks to the experience of memory for all of us, not just those with dementia. Despite all of our scientific advances, we still have so much to learn about memory and the mind.

“'I told you the truth,' I say yet again, 'Memory’s truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent versions of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else’s version more than his own.'”

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

Author Salman Rushdie