Title : ONE BIG 'NOW' - OR MANY DIFFERENT 'THENS'...?
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ONE BIG 'NOW' - OR MANY DIFFERENT 'THENS'...?
When I look back on my childhood, there are some aspects of it which seem to have made a disproportionate impression on my memory banks in relation to their actual duration. For example, when I think of comics like Wham!, or Fantastic - or any of the Power Comics in fact - it feels like they were on sale for years and years, whereas the reality is that Wham! lasted for only around 3-and-a-half years and I bought it for probably less than half its lifespan before it was merged with Pow!
Fantastic lasted for 89 issues - a mere year-and-9-months - yet, again, to my mind, it was part of my life for 3 or 4 times that. Thunder? Jet? Each only survived for 22 issues, but in the misty mazes of my memory, seem to have extended way beyond their far-too short lifespan. Another example from my own experience is the first issue of the revamped Smash! I sold my copy to a classmate after only 4 days, but the images of its contents were so seared into my consciousness that when I obtained a replacement 15-and-half years later, I remembered every page as though I'd last laid eyes on them only a day or two before.
And it's the same with toys. There will be many a toy that I probably owned for weeks or months (perhaps even days or hours in some cases) that I still recall with startling clarity as though they accompanied me through life from childhood to adulthood. And isn't it strange how we seem to retroactively remember each toy as though we owned them all at the same time for the same duration, when in fact, some will have been dispensed with before others ever came into our possession?
Strangely, that illusion still holds sway even when we know that one particular toy was bought in 1965 and another in 1969 after the '65 toy had been swapped, given away, or thrown out. The two (and others) survive in memory as contemporaries, even though they weren't. It's even the same with people. I had friends and acquaintances who never made it into their 20s (or got their foot just over the threshold) who still seem relevant and current to me as if they yet lived and hadn't bowed out of life's race (not that it was their choice) two-thirds of my life away.
Sometimes, when I look back on yesteryear, my life seem to have consisted of one single large tapestry 'woven' together from various experiences; at other times, lots of separate, individual, unconnected 'pieces', each one occupying its own private space in my mind. Though when it comes down to it, is it all ultimately the same thing? If that makes any kind of sense to you (and that'll depend on whether I've managed to convey my thoughts with even a hint of clarity), feel free to add your own musings in the comments section.
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