Xuen Tey - Week #16 - Timelines
Most people’s minds seem to follow a linear pattern. This event happened, then this one and that one and on and on, with neat little dates, a sequence easily translated into a straightforward timeline from the distant past up until the present day. I’ve heard my friends easily tell me that a specific event happened in a specific year or date or time, and I have no idea how they do it. I’ve mentioned my memory being like puzzle pieces, with different memories that have to be pieced together, but I never mentioned that I am terrible with puzzles. Even if I did have all the pieces, I would get terribly lost trying to organize them into what is at the start, what’s inbetween, and what is at the end. I’m not good at trying to organize past events. My childhood, in my head, is organized by grade, since I can tell what grade I was in based on which teachers I had and I felt that was a much better way to track stages of my childhood rather than tracking my age, which wasn’t terribly easy to tr...