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“Do you remember, my brother, the old good times?”

Three years ago, I bought a digital camera hoping to take some good pictures, but my hope disappeared almost immediately because, in spite of my best efforts, the camera didn’t work as it was supposed to.

 

In fact, that camera, made by a well-known brand, made noises every time it took a picture, it didn’t take pictures of good quality and, after taking only a few pictures, it stopped working.

 

There were so many problems I eventually decided to replace that camera with a simpler and cheaper one. I put the original camera in one of those forgotten corners of the closet and it remained there for a long time.

 

That camera, that was rather pricey when I bought it, gathered dust at that dark corner until last week, when, because of necessity and curiosity, I decided to resurrect it to see if it was still working.

 

Because I was unable to find the original memory card, I put a new one, with many more capacity than the memory card the camera had three years ago. Suddenly, an incredible transformation happened. That useless camera now was taking clear pictures. The menu offered the options to silence the noise, and I was able to take as many pictures as I wanted, hundreds and potentially thousands, with any problems.

 

In other words, the camera didn’t have any problem, except that it didn’t have enough memory and, therefore, its performance was limited. That camera needed a good memory card to achieve its real potential.

 

That situation with a digital camera unable to achieve all its potential because it lacked enough memory reminded me of a similar situation many of us face, because many of us, due to lack of memory, are not reaching our full potential.

 

When we allow the urgencies of the present to fill all of our mind there is no room left to remember the past nor to remember the plans we developed in the past for our future,

 

We are overwhelmed every day by an avalanche of information moving at such a high speed that deletes all our memories, all that is “old,” understanding as “old” everything and anything that’s not in agreement with whatever the latest fad happens to be.

 

There is so much information around us and we are being so openly manipulated by that information that we achieve some kind of information trance, leading us to an existential amnesia: we forget who we really are. We forget about ourselves.

 

Our loss of memory is so great that we have forgotten our own roots and we don’t even remember the history of our people and the traditions of our ancestors.

 

Because we don’t remember who we are, we are condemned to live in mediocrity and, as it happened to my camera, always marginalized in a corner, just gathering dust, with no past and no future, in spite of having a great potential.

 

The time has come to expand our memory to achieve and show our true potential.

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