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As I have observed some memories become more prominent based on two main aspects, the intensity of the emotions at the moment of the event, how unique is that memory compared to other different events and the feedback we receive along of the time by the other people who also shared the memory.

By the first aspect as stronger the emotion was at the moment of the event as easier to have a more lasting imprint it in our memory.

The second aspects relate on how unique was the event on our memory, the more our brain becomes accustomed to the associated feelings, it diminish the significance of that memory over time.

And lastly, it is important to take into consideration that our memories are constantly shaped into new ones according on the feedback we are constantly receiving by other people on how other people lived and remember the same event.

In my case, it's interesting because there are really big blanks in my childhood memories, but the ones I’ve got are probably the best ones. Maybe what in which I focused on the most have been the more impacting experiences I’ve had. Other things that maybe weren’t important are probably already gone. Specifically, as a child, some situations, and experiences mark you much more than others, and it may also be something that determines if someone either feels or not nostalgia when he or she remembers the past. However, nostalgia isn’t something strong for me when I think about my childhood. Although I enjoyed a lot of my childhood and I could say it was a great one, in the end, I’ve learned that you can’t go back to the past, and you just can remember it. That’s why I’ve always tended to try to live at the moment and collect good memories that I can enjoy remembering some years later.

Memories depend quite a lot on our brains and on how impactful they are. We tend to keep memories with high emotional and/or learning value. So, certain things that we remember fondly from our childhood were impactful to us in a certain way. So going back in time in our minds will make us feel nostalgia. Also, the human brain is not perfect so it tends to "modify" or change certain details from our memories after some time, making those memories more or less significant to us. So less significant memories will fade away because we do not need them very often or because they were not impactful things to us. I believe that it also depends on how we are currently doing in life. When we are going through a hard time, we might remember more the good times we had in the past. At least this is how it happens to me.

Jose:

I think everyone has in their mind like a sorting mechanism that takes memories and decide if they are going to be needed or not in the future and according to that keeps leaving them in the surface or push them down into obvlivium. In some cases, the memories are so traumatic that skips all this sorting and just become something permanent in your psyche.

In my personal case, the things that I remember the most are pretty vivid, but they are a lot less than the average has. I think my sorting manager in my brain is very picky about the memories that are stored and preserved there... maybe I don't have a lot of room there in my hard drive and is a necesary thing to do.

The first memory I remember is in my first year of school and I received a gift from a child crush I had. That they I felt pretty bad because I accidentally damaged the gift I was given by her, and that made me feel sad and concern, much more I imagine of what I had experienced at that time.

There are memories that were more important in our life because they could be changes or to learn, some of them are connected with strong or new emotions and continue in our mind, it is just like movie "Inside out"

In the other side, we forget a lot of them because we are focus in many things at the same time or because it is a way to protect us that find our brain. Sometimes we need dont think anymore.

Alejandro~

I think the importance of some memories has a lot to do with the emotions we feel on the moment, even if we have a good or a bad memory we end up remembering those times over and over, even to the point when we can imagine and remember the scene physically, however other moments where we don't feel a big emotion or the experience isn't as important to us it doesn't stick to us that much as others, one example of this is x-mas, specifically the gifts moment, where depending on the gift and our emotion with it we can recall the moment faster when we think back and reminescence of those memories, as an example I remember the time i got a Dragon Ball t-shirt from my mother because i cried and i was really happy, but I don't really remember most of the toys I got for the holidays as a child, because those were repetitive and didn't stick onto me.

To round things up, it's important to remember that not every memory is bad even if we recall it and feel cringe or sadness, it's just a piece of our paths in life and it's important to learn from our mistakes and do better.

Discuss the role of nostalgia in shaping childhood memories. Why do you think some memories become more prominent as we grow older, while others fade away?

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