sjsprWriting

Every tiny, little space in our brain holds a memory. Some of our brains have rooms that store memories about when we were two years older starting to walk, other brains have rooms that only hold on to what we ate for breakfast this morning. Our brains have rooms that hold memories forever until we need them. When we need them, they come out of their rooms to the surface of our minds. They come out to make us giggle, cringe, or even cry. Songs and smells are experts in knocking on these memories' rooms' to make them wake up and make us feel something. They come out to make us emotional about a certain moment in our lives. A subtle whisper can easily wake up a memory about a certain time where we felt happy or sad or excited or terrified or heartbroken... The oldest ones living in the farthest hallways of our brains are at times thrown away from their tiny rooms by newborn memories who need a place to live. On these new, young, memories' rooms' doors we don't have to knock as hard; because they are already awake and eager to rise to the surface of our thoughts.