Friday night I curled up on the couch with a great friend and watched an old favorite. A movie that addresses the power of memory, the hold it has on your thoughts, the strength it takes to work through it. This movie brings up issues that pervade the minds of many, but are largely unaddressed.
What does it mean to remember well? To remember rightly?
How do we process negative memory and allow it to positively affect our mindset/lives?
What does it look like to work through a memory in a way that does it justice, without minimizing its importance, also not allowing it to consume you?
Now the real question is... which movie inspired such profound thought?
Raise Your Voice.
Yes, starring Hilary Duff.
It seems a little silly to still have a favorite movie starring a teeny-bopper, yet this movie has always struck me, and I could never pinpoint why. This weekend I connected the main character's struggle with my own - the desire to remember well yet still not let memory overwhelm you.
I have begun reading The End of Memory by Miroslav Volf, which will hopefully shed some light on answers to these questions. For now.. they will remain questions.
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