Essay On Post Memory

Having a post-memory can effect the way that you live everyday. If your post memory is tragic or sad, it can be scaring to have to keep living with that post memory. A post memory is when you don’t remember what the event that took place but you have had someone in your life tell you stories about that event. This event would ultimately effect how a child would grow up or how a normal person would react to certain things that go along with that event that was stated. My post memory involves a supposed old wise old man who people would call their grandpa. This person is someone that is suppose to be present in your life but for me, he wasn’t. My parents have always told me stories about my grandpa and how they all got into a big fight but I don’t remember them every getting into a fight. This post-memory that I have has effected me in a way that brings much sorrow into my life.

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When I found out about what was going on in our family I was shocked that this could happen. I was even more hurt that my grandpa would not want anything to do with me for the longest time. I thought about how a grandpa is suppose to be caring and loving towards their grandchildren and I did think of him that way when I was younger but hearing about how he didn’t want anything to do with me made me sad. Through the stories that I have heard from my mom I started to have a different emotion all on what my mom was saying. I had no idea that this was going on when I was younger. At times I wish I didn’t know that all this had happened. Now, my grandparents have realized that what they did was wrong and are trying to be apart of my life more but with what happened I don’t think that I will ever be able to look at them the same way as I did when I was a kid. The emotion of love isn’t there anymore. It is replaced with the feeling of being awkward and forced to love this person that is in my