March 13 | 365 Days of Writing Prompts

Silver screen: Take a quote from your favorite movie — there’s the title of your post. Now, write!

Title: If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries.
[in Kar-Wai Wong’s Chungking Express (1994)]

Probably, the main fear of all humanity is non-existence, or in other words, to die. Then, at least for me, the main fear is the loss of memory. Without memory, we are no one. We can not relate to our past. Therefore we can not relate to the people that made who we are. Moreover, we may not know who we are after all.

Creating memories (preferably good ones) is the best way to have a repository of feelings that we can reach when we want and when we remember something by tasting some food, smell, or see someone or some event that we can relate to.

Once I wrote a short story, inspired by some short story of Jorge Luis Borges, in which when people died they would freeze and be conscious of reality in their last breath for eternity.

The main character, which died in the end, was grateful for all the thing he has read and done during his lifetime, then he would have plenty of memories to go by during this eternity. Can you imagine being conscious and frozen for the rest of your life without anything in your head?

We can not understand the present without knowing the History. For me, it is important to live the present to create a future with a good past.