You and your best friend must have a very strong friendship, if it can survive the fact that your experiences are different. Things like experiences are the foundations of most relationships.

I have super selective memory and so does my best friend, which is often a source of us being annoyed at each other, since neither of us remembers the same event the same way, AND we remember it all in detail, but only from our own sides.

I think I’d rather not know how I was formed by my experiences. As long as it’s an improvement, it doesn’t matter how I get there. I’d probably rather forget, actually, as most of them have been painful; as the saying goes, what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger.

I guess there’s a whole other side of me being revealed while I’m here in Hong Kong. There are many different stimulants here that have opened up thoughts in my head.

I’ve learned not to be offended by people who don’t remember things I’ve said, word-for-word. Maybe I’m used to it because my best friend has a terrible memory, unless it’s about history or politics.

As for my trip, I’m here for another five days, though one of those is my flight, so it’s really only four quality ones. The meds are going well; side effects aren’t great, but certainly worth the benefits that they provide to my comfort and eating habits.

But then again, I don’t envy people who forgets things, though those “things” are unhappy events that we want to forget, because I think that these events, happy or not, are what make me who I am today :)

I don’t know why but for some reasons, your blogging while in HK makes me feel that I have known you forever, compared to when you were in Canada!

i — like you — have a pedantic memory for every single detail of most things.. mostly a conversation past, whether it be MY conversation or someone else’s that was recounted to me. i’ll say, ‘don’t you remember you said such-and-such to him?’ and the person i am talking to will be dumbfounded that i actually have the time and bother to remember such silly details.

in some ways i truly envy people who have the ability to forget things because it leaves them less vulnerable in certain situations. i think memory retention is just a gateway to feeling any sort of deep emotion; it can be quite overwhelming sometimes. other times, i get annoyed that people seem to forget things that i have remembered, almost like a slap in the face they don’t share the same memories of something that seemed to be of importance.

on another note; how much longer are you in HK for? and how are the meds going?