Hello?!

Playground school bell rings… again.
Rain clouds come to play… again.
Has no one told you she's not breathing?
Hello! I'm your mind,
Living for you so you can hide…
Don't cry.

[some omitted]

Hello?!
I'm still here!
All that's left of yesterday…

"Hello" by Evanescence

Amy Lee lost a baby sister when younger. This beautiful song talks about her sister being missing from life (as does, I've heard, the song "Missing"), but in doing so it demonstrates a human flaw.

Memory. Memory betrays us—we forget so quickly. How many of us have realized rather abruptly, that you had a friend 2 years ago that you've lost touch with and have no idea how to contact again? Or even if you can get in touch, should you?

I had this happen to me recently with one friend who I realized I hadn't heard from in a year. What had happened to her in that year? Her father died. She's a few years younger than I am (& I'm a college sophomore).

I'm mentioned multiple times on this site about my comatose minister. It's tempting to doubt God, doubt His willingness, His ability, forgetting the multiple times He's already saved my life. Like being born 3 months prematurely with jaundice and a heart that wouldn't beat. And like a car accident in September 2005 where I hit a tree—and had not an inexplicable detail happened, I would've likely been dead or in the hospital for a month or more. As things turned out, I walked away with a few bruises.

Memory is a flawed record, easily scratched and rewritten. And it degrades. (My generation might think of it as a CD-RW.) Don't trust it.

-'Dee

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Submitted by Jellen on Mon, 2006-11-20 09:54.

for a reason, Carradee. And you are right about that flawed record. What is too bad though, is that we do feel awkward about approaching an old acquaintance, since we have let so much time slide by. But I am one who believes if the thought of a person crosses my mind out of memory past, I should call them, write them, or a least say a quick prayer for them. I do not believe in coincidence. That moment could be important.