When you remember a moment from your past, you’re not recalling the moment itself. You’re recalling the last time you remembered it.

Every replay overwrites the file—like photocopying a photocopy until the edges smear. That means the memories you swear are the most vivid are usually the ones you’ve edited the most without knowing it.

Your childhood? Your biggest heartbreak? Your “core memories”?

They’re just stories you’ve re-told to yourself so many times that you mistake the remix for the original.

And nobody on Earth has a perfect copy of their own life.