Hello Mes Amis,

Happy Sunday guys. I hope you enjoyed ever bit the service today? I did and I actually danced without minding who is looking today cos today is the Thanksgiving for the annual seventy days fasting and praying program we do observe in my church which ended last week Sunday. Everybody was super excited and ready to give their Hughes praise to God for giving them the grace to see the beginning and the end of the program and also for all the wonders been performed in the lives of each and everyone of us. All praise be to God Almighty.

On the issue of memories, I know it's a common word that is not strange to anybody as everyone has that one or two memories they hold dear. One of the things growth and development does for human is to sort of create memories of the past or of how things used to be in the brain of such individual. Although sometimes we may just sit down in a corner or in the corner of our minds and start reminiscing about the past and may even wish it could somehow come back, yet somethings also contribute to the function of remembering things that has happened in the past even when it is not a deliberate attempt on our part. I don't know whether there was a time you were passing along a street or just sitting down minding your own business and suddenly, memories of the past start coming to your mind even though you didn't summon it. Well it may be due to one or more of the following reasons:

A. Smell: sometimes, when we perceive some smell (especially) perfumes, we tend to remember a certain event, incident or person even without thinking about them before. This is because while we were with such persons or in a certain important event, a certain smell that was ascribed to that person or place was registered into our brain and whenever we perceive that smell, Scents bypass the thalamus and go straight to the brain's smell center, known as the olfactory bulb and remember that The olfactory bulb is directly connected to the amygdala and hippocampus, which might explain why the smell of something can so immediately trigger a detailed memory or even intense emotion. A certain lady passing by a perfume shop, stopped in her tracks and suddenly broke down into tears. When asked the reason for her action,she replied saying a particular fragrance of a certain perfume reminded her of a dear friend who passed away sometimes ago. She hadn't been thinking of that friend as of late, but the smell which her brain has come to register as the personality of her friend brought the memories back to her.

B. Songs: For me, this is by far the strongest of all elements of memories. Once you hear a song you play often in a certain place or with a certain person, you can almost see yourself going back to that day and place again. The feeling is so strong that you can even remember all that happened in details by that action. There was this time I went to write an exam in another state and we were grouped in four and allocated a room for each group. When I was there, a certain song was released that year and I really love the song, so I started playing it. Without exaggeration, I played that song over 150 times. Yeah, I can be like that sometimes; once there is a song I love, I tend to key into and listen to it over and over again till I can hear it play in my head without actually playing in real life. Weird right? That's just me😂. We started in that location for a month and some few days after which we left for our various houses. After getting home, I totally left listening to the song. Guess why? Well, it become I found another new release! After about 4 months later, I was at home watching a program when they started playing this song. I was totally overwhelmed with the memories of those days at the lodge we stayed. So, the music played at a certain place for a special person can really bring back memories of that place or person.

C. Color: This one is quite subtle in action but also effective. Colors can also bring back the memories of people we love or things we adore especially with it deals with a beloved one that as died or is far from one or people we sometimes loved before but severe relationship with.

D. Food: If you watch movies a lot, I'm sure you must have come by a scene in which a mother, for example, sees a type of food and just started thinking of how her son used to love that food or you must have seen a lover reminiscing of the good times shared with a lover just by seeing the picture of the food the lover love or maybe they eat it together. Anyways, what I'm trying to say is, the certain food we commonly find in an important place or we do share with a person can bring back the memories of them in to our mind.

Conclusion

Memories of days spent with loved ones, or doing what we like best, or in places so important are by themselves important. But note for you to have a memory of something, you must have given your time to it. So, if you want people to remember you to, spend your time making memories with them or better still spend your time give them what they can not get very another. We have met a lot of People, gone to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but only those of importance (whether good or bad) will be registered for live in our memories.

Thanks for reading this article friends. Hope you make good memories with people you have met and are yet to meet.❤️❤️❤️