Mica May

Memories and The Future

My partner and I were driving along today when my partner remarked that the man in the car we had just passed looked like one of the men in the 118 118 advert. I hadn't noticed this at the time, but I ran back the video in my mind and noticed that, sure enough, he had.
This struck me as a marvellous thing.
I hadn't noticed the man at all, but when asked to recall him, I could.

Something I hadn't remembered had lodged in my mind  and being asked about it immediately, I was able to bring it into my conscious awareness.

Research shows that in reality though, after a period of time our memories aren't actually reliable or accurate at all.
Our brains can't hold all of our memories complete, there would simply be too much information

Extended Families

My work brings me into constant contact with families going through changes.
Change is always something we need time to adjust to and that adjustment can be especially difficult when the changes are big or aren't one's we've chosen ourselves.
This is often the case for the families I encounter. Someone may be ill or have left the family unit and sometimes new people are joining the family.
Children are often stronly affected by changes like these because they feel especially powerless.