what was it last week what happened

For so long the space between recording and memory has been short: if you do not record you do not remember. If someone sends you an email from four years prior and you cannot recall a single moment you yourself are describing, it sends this belief into the sky. To examine the importance of memory is a depressing exercise, as no one can retain everything. One is inclined to say that distraction plays a part in the inability to remember, in that one might forget the very thing one intended to recall when one is distracted, but who is not to say that the distraction itself was the thing to be remembered? What this means is that to keep in perfect isolation to avoid distraction would be a life that provides nothing worth remembering, but that the manifold bits of life worth keeping scream for attention and drown each other out.