Compressing One's Life.

LEFT, Mini- Christmas lanterns (parols ) or compressed
"parols."


When we download any software, driver, game, etc from the Internet, oftentimes, they would be compressed, then we have to unzip or decompress them before they can be installed.

How about compressing years of your life into just about two or three weeks and then decompressing them again? Sounds complicated and weird and unrealistic and un-doable. It sounds so sci-fi.

People go through life as either married, not married but in a long term committed relationship, single but in a relationship or single and celibate at the same time. Years of living would have produced tons of memories stored in the brain.

What if you suddenly find yourself changing places or situation in life? How would you compress your memories or your life to fit them into a new status. From being married to being divorced, from being single to being married, from being single but in a relationship to being just single, from being single and celibate to being single and sexually active.

Or do you really have to compress these memories and life experiences and unfold or unzip them once you've settled into the new life?

Getting divorced or separated is a most difficult time so is being dumped by a boyfriend or girlfriend, or being sexually active for the first time or getting involved with a person who is not free to marry anymore. But these things happen all the time to a lot of people.

And that's the time when people compress the memories (the good and the bad) so that s/he can move on from the difficulty, from the pain, from the angst, from the anger, from the disillusionment.

People compress the years of engagement/relationship into segmented memories, preferably putting on top the most happy times or for some, getting the most bitter ones up in the memory-level, to make the parting or adjustment more manageable. It really depends on the personality of the individual.

Once everything has healed or as the more popular buzzword says, moved on, then the individual can begin to unzip and decompress the memories which have been filed away or stored in the innermost memory bank of the brain. Then, the individual can look back at the experience with detachment or lesser or no pain.