…meanwhile in Korea…

Memory’s a fickle bitch (and the Badger Blogging Blitz)

One of my greatest fears in Korea is in relation to how transient my experiences are here. Knowing I’ve got a firm expiration date on my time here only heightens the concern. The day to day minutiae of my life will be mostly forgotten. The joint biases of attention and memory will magnify and distort certain aspects, while others recede from memory altogether. What’s worse is that the effect will only be amplified each time I savour one of these precious memories, further distancing it from the original. In any case, even initial perception is in no way a tape recorder of reality, so I suppose memory is just one more obnoxious filter to layer on. The annoying Instagram of your life.

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