What Exactly Do We Remember?

Think back to last night. Whatever you may have done. You can imagine being there again. What it looked like, what it smelt like, you can remember the essence of the evening. That is a memory.
 memory |ˈmem(ə)rē|
noun ( pl. -ries)1 a person's power to remember things : I've a great memory for faces |my grandmother is losing her memory.• the power of the mind to remember things : the brain regions responsible for memory.• the mind regarded as a store of things remembered : he searched his memory frantically for an answer.• the capacity of a substance to return to a previous state or condition after having been altered or deformed. See also shape memory .2 something remembered from the past; a recollection : one of my earliest memories is of sitting on his knee | the mind can bury all memory of traumaticabuse.

        
           I remember being at graduation at Loyola. I remember what I was wearing, who I was sitting next to, what we were talking about. And that is a memory in my head. Memories help us to remember things from our past, and keep them with us when they are no longer around. But what happens when the memories fade? and we forget the event, but only remember the stories. Memories change over time because we lose sight of what actually happened, or we lose sight of how something actually is, and we fill in the gaps with thoughts from our imagination. "Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events." Einstein. We fill in the voids based on how we are feeling at the moment, or what our current state is. I miss having my girlfriend around, and i miss feeling her and being encompassed by love. And those feelings are starting to fade. I am forgetting what is actually like to have her around, and I'm only remembering the stories of things we have done, and forgetting the essence of the events themselves. At first, I got really discouraged by this thought. Because I am forgetting what it is like to have Bri around. Will that change my feelings for her? I don't think so. The feeling you get when you close your eyes and picture what the other person is doing is strong in my head. So strong actually. I can imagine what she is saying and doing. And I hope she can do the same for me. Once that bond is established, it cant be broken on distance alone. Something has to cut the bond. And there is nothing that is coming close to cutting our bond. I know it is going to work out between us, and that is all i need to keep going, even if I cant feel her next to me at the moment. Because I know it will happen soon enough. And that is good enough for me...... <3