Two slithers of my past:
I'm four yours old - possibly three, possibly five. We're driving back from a holiday in Bournemouth along the old A30 (a bit that has long ago by-passed - though the memory of this incident is so strong I could you take you there now) We stop, probably to let me have a pee.
I dance around, obviuosly happy. The au pair scolds me for ignoring how ill my mother is. I think she has a headache and rheumatism (and her marriage is breaking up). I take the au pair to mean I should be unhappy if my mother is.
Then, 16, 18 years later, c1965:
I'm walking across Trafalgar Square with my wife. She is having a black depression. How can I make things better for her? I feel frantic. "What's the matter with you?" she snaps.
"Well, you are so depressed..."
"Just because I'm in a bad mood, doesn't mean you have to be."
I try to cheer up for, her sake.
Znethru
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*ouch* I also tend to remember negative things from the past. Does this mean that mankind is contrary?