on a maddening loop

Usually books and music inspire me more than films. Perhaps two hours of moving images fill my head to such a degree that there is no space left for independent thought. No soil untended for seeds of questions to take root.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was an exception to that rule. I entered into an engaging conversation with the characters, scenes and stories. I came away with far more questions than answers - but as always, I like it that way.

Some of the seedlings currently struggling to reach for the light include -

Is memory a loop? do new memories eventually overwrite and erase older, less cherished or less used ones? Perhaps memory is like a hard drive? so that when something goes wrong and you lose everything saved on it - only then do you remember that you haven’t backed it up? Only when lost do you cherish the memories that you stored away and never even glanced at. But how do you back up your mind? How do you preserve memories against mechanical failure? By taking their photos, by writing them down? Perhaps by telling their stories so they are shared between many rather than an unreliable few?