March 01, 2003

Wasted grey matter

I remember the state of everything when I learn something - so much so that sometimes I can't even remember the thing outside the context. For example, when I mark something in a book as being very interesting, later when I remember this little bit of knowledge I remember what coffee shop I was in, where I was in my life, what the book smelled like, what chapter, where on the page.

Sometimes when I find myself searching for something mentally I feel like I am wandering the earth, looking around for a place and time and not a fact, a tidbit.

My brain feels that the state of the world at the time of my learning is more important than what I actually learned. And maybe it's right .

March 1, 2003 10:46 AM