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Indelible Images
North Miami Beach, FL April 10, 2001 Aaron H.
Schectman
THINKING ALLOWED
Essays on issues, ideas and reflections on the times. Published now and
then, Opinions pro or con are welcome.
INDELIBLE IMAGES
For me, indelible images are those that I flashback to without thinking.
They are experiences that come back in connection with some related
happening that I can recall without difficulty and in complete detail. I
have been wondering what kind of images are most intense - by this I mean
are they personally experienced or may they be generated by something I have
read, been told, seen in a movie or on television?
I would guess that most people have indelible images vividly portrayed in a
personal experience. I find, since I am an addicted reader that favorite
books I read over and over provide a lot of my indelible images. They
resonate so strongly that I think about them and go back to re-read them
over and over again. I confess to re-reading the first three books of the
Clan of the Cave Bear at least twice a year. Something about the
well-ordered lives of people who must band together to survive in an age of
mammoths, cave lions and glaciers dominating the planet's extremities speaks
loud and clear to me.
Cataclysmic experiences would, of course, be most important in the lives of
more of us than would those of us who simply read vicariously. I remember
earthquakes and hurricanes but no tornadoes, thank goodness. Falling down
difficult parts easily topped my painfully slow trips up mountains. In
wearily taking big steps down shifting earth impelled me to stumble and fall
but luckily remaining with my dorsal side up as I slid along rocks and roots
to end up in a remarkably sound heap.
I have had a dream that has not recurred in a long time that deals with me
feeling the bullets of a machine gun hitting me in the chest in a situation
where the gun was set up outside of the building in which I was standing. I
was at the end of a hall and when the door opened the gun began shooting and
I was hit. I felt it more then than I do now, but the feeling was
indelible.
I first had this dream that seemed so real when I was a child just old
enough to see a movie about trench warfare in World War I.
Well, those are some of my indelible images. What are yours?
Carol's Evaluation: 9.5 out of 10.
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