The Memory Collectors

by Dete Meserve

the most common answer is that we want to spend a few more moments with someone we lost.

“we don’t change time. But time changes us. What will you discover when you look back with fresh eyes?

We all think we know what other people should do. But I see now that each of us is going on roads only we can see.”

“I’ve been believing that every bad thing that happens has an easily identifiable cause. A perpetrator and a victim. Guilty and innocent. I’d believed the outcome of everything is within our control, and when things don’t happen the way we think they should, someone must be to blame. But I see that’s not always how it is.”

We are powerful. And powerless. There are things I couldn’t control that night, and things I could. Things I did. And things I didn’t think to do. The outcome wasn’t in my control.

I seek hope, finding light only in the memories of you.