How to Travel in Your Mind
Last Modified: 09/02/2021
Thinking about your past travel will make you feel entertained.
- 1The idea of making a big deal of revisiting an experience in memory...
- 2...sounds a little strange or simply sad.
- 3We are not assiduous or devoted cultivators of our past experiences.
- 4We shove all the nice things that have happened to us...
- 5...at the back of the cupboard of our minds...
- 6...and don't particularly expect to see them ever again.
- 7They happen, and then we're done with them.
- 8They do sometimes come back to us, unbidden.
- 9We may be on a boring train ride to work...
- 10...and suddenly, an image of a beach at dusk comes to life.
- 11Or, while we're having a bath...
- 12...we remember climbing a flower-covered mountain with a friend a decade before.
- 13But little attention tends to get paid to such moments.
- 14We don't engineer regular encounters with them.
- 15We may feel we have to dismiss them as daydreaming or thinking about nothing.
- 16But what if we were to alter the hierarchy of prestige a little,...
- 17...and argue that regular immersion in our memories...
- 18...is a critical part of what can sustain and console us.
- 19And not least, is perhaps the cheapest and most flexible form of entertainment.
- 20We should learn, regularly, to travel around our minds...
- 21...and think it almost as prestigious to sit at home and reflect on a trip...
- 22...we once took to an island as to trek to this island encased in our cumbersome bodies.
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