...4th Chunk: Childhood

QUESTION: Do you agree that we've mostly forgotten the flavor and content of our childhood?
- Personally i think that at my age , i cant answer this question. I think that its too early in my life to forget about my childhood. i think that it is very sad for a 16 year old to already have forgotten about their childhood. I would understand that if your above the age of 20, and you forget about how it was to be a 5 year old,and all your memories as a 5 year old. But as a 15 year old, i don't agree that we mostly forgotten about our childhood. As i heard from friend, that when your older theres a great chance that you ll remember your kindergarten or 1st grade teacher over any of your other teachers. i think that as you get older you remember only the present and what happened in your very first years, not in between.
Another point of view that i look at all of this is that, i think that in our memory,we have everything still stored, but we just need a REMINDER to think about those things. Like for example when we went and visited the 3rd floor and watched all the little kids,it reminded me of all the different memories i had in that classroom when i was in 6Th grade. But on a regular day, i wouldn't necessarily be thinking about those memories, the only time i do think about them is when i am reminded about them. its also like how Andy took us up to the gym to play all these childhood games, playing those games really did bring back so many different memories, while if we didn't play those games, i wouldn't remember those memories. So i know that i have so many different memories stored inside of my brain ,i just have to go and fetch them!
This also brings up a different point that, i used to have a beach house in Southampton but then we sold it. Selling that house made me realize how my whole childhood was gone. Selling the house just made all my memories get erased. When i try and think back to all the great times i had there, it's hard because i feel no longer a part of that house.
This summer I went back to visit my friend on our block, when i bumped into the people who now live in the house, and they had invited me in. As stupid as i was, i walked inside to only find my self depressed. Walking through all the rooms, all i could think of is " wow they changed everything around, and now this house just looks like a pottery barn catalogue."That's not exactly what i wanted to be going through my head, what i wanted was for a smile to come on my face and just picture myself as a 5 year old running around with my curls bouncing. Ever since that visit, when i think back to my memories, all i can see is they way the house looks now, not how it was when we lived in it. As crazy as it sounds, that house WAS my childhood. memories from running around the pool, the various times i almost drowned into it too... all the slumber parties i had as a child, sneaking in the basement to play Barbie's at the age of 4, too sneaking out the house to a party at the age of 15. But now thinking of all these times, they are blurred, until I'm older and i buy that house back , and change it back to the way its supposed to be.
SOO...in the end i just think we need to see our childhood, or feel an emotion we felt when we were a child in order to remember how it was.

...1st Chunk: Intro + Summary (NOT DONE)..

In "The Politics of Experience", R.D Laing talks about how humans today became who they are.The artical brings up that "the ordinary person is a shrivelled, desiccated fragment of what a person can be", which is basically saying that people today are LESS then what they can be, they don't try hard enough to get places in life. He also brings up the fact that we don't use our bodies , unless we need to . We don't do anything extra in life, we just do what we need to do to survive, and stay alive, nothing more.