“... and as we looked into each other’s eyes, we saw that the years have not faded the pain and memories. The pain was intact.” - Page 9, I Have Lived a Thousand Years
In this experience just like many others, memories don’t go away. Many experiences leave impacts on you forever and you can’t just let them go. Experiencing something like the Holocaust would be something absolutely impossible to forget. Like how could anybody ever escape the situation during the Holocaust mentally and/or physically? Memories that hang heaviest or ones that are the worst, are the easiest to remember. Pain and memories have the ability to change one’s life forever. Haruki Murakami once said “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
When I read these quotes I immediately started thinking about perseverance. About the will of survival, to keep moving on. As we were learning in social studies, many Jews had to persevere when they were in the camps because they had to keep moving on. Another connection I can make is that when anybody loses someone close to them, you always have to persevere through challenging times. Now put yourself into a Jews shoes and ponder about what you would do to persevere through these dispute times.
I love how you said ¨Memories that hang heaviest or ones that are the worst, are the easiest to remember. ¨ because it is true. I can remember all the worst things that happened to me but hardly any of the good things.
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