CHOICY SITUATIONS

I came upon this the other day that I wrote:

Memories…

I don’t know how the mind works…

So that truth gets morphed into a story…

That you can live with.

We always have to come out the winner, don’t we?

I wrote it awhile ago…

And at the time I wrote it…

I had been in a conversation with my daughter…

When we were remembering a stressful situation…

She and I were in.

But her memory of that time…

Was vastly different than mine.

We argued that what each remembered...
Was the real truth…

Obviously she thought her memory was right…

And I argued that my memory was right.

But how can that be?

I then realized both of us…

Had our own reality of that situation at that time…

But what was the truth?

I’ve been thinking about this…

And it made me think of us authors…

And the stories we write…

And how we make our heroes and protagonists…

Always come out the winner.

But in life…

We can’t always be right…

Can’t always be the hero…

Unless that is…

We rewrite reality…

Just enough so we can live with our actions.

This concept is not new…

I remember lines from the song, Memories…

Sung by Barbra Streisand…

“Has time rewritten every line…

What’s too painful to remember…

We simply choose to forget”

What about you?

Have you ever rewritten your reality…

Because you couldn’t bare to own up to the truth? 
Or?
Have you ever written about a hero...
Who didn't win in the end?

Always, Em-Musing