The Memory Collectors

by Dete Meserve

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.”

“Everything we do, everything that happens to us—good or bad—relies on a million little moments in the past. We fool ourselves if we believe that we control every moment. But we can do something now to change our futures,”

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.