Reply To: Remembering and Forgetting (Year 2, Sun. Gr 1)

[Anonymous]

I believe Jill’s condition leans more on the side of a curse. I think I’ve seen every interview or documentary that involved her some time ago and the book gave me even broader perspective about her life.
It must be so hard living with this type of condition I can’t even imagine it. Obviously its great to recall pleasent memories but life is not about pleasent things alone. As I rely on repression or simply forgeting hurtful moments of my life I can’t imagine being forced to retrieve difficult memories withour any warning. And as we know Jill doesn’t have an easy life, she is constatntly hounted haunted by her past. If not big traumas then little things like when she did something embarasing 10 years ago. We all know that feeling when we lie in bed wanting to fall asleep and suddenly and randomly we recall some embarrassing situation from the past. She remembers nearly all of them. That alone would be a curse.
Obviously it’s not like her life is hell, it may be close but still she is used to it as we all are to our struggles. We adapt and so did she. I think being able to remember good things makes it bearable.

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