What is your earliest memory?

Good Day Friends!

Day number 2 of my Mae May challenge!
What is your earliest memory? I would love to hear yours….. here is mine: I am not sure of the precise age, but I must have been just starting to walk. I’m in a park with my mother and there is a small community carnival. My mother takes me over to one of the activities where a girl opens a coin purse, throws change into the air, and the kids scramble to find the coins in the grass. But I am too small…and my legs and hands are not coordinated or fast enough so I don’t get any of the coins. The girl feels bad so she does it again just for me, but the other kids are simply too fast and I am too small.

I remember distinctly, the feeling of total awareness of myself as a person and the frustration I felt trying to get my hands and legs to coordinate at the speed of my thoughts. Now you might think that children don’t retain memories of life that early, but I’ve always had an odd memory capable to remember the minute details. I can pick up a celebrity magazine and recall years later that a celebrity had a dog named Fizzle….. I swear if I were to ever meet someone famous they would think me a stalker because I retain so much random information.

In reflecting on this memory, I think two things….we need to remember kids are real people which sounds silly, but I think somehow there is a belief that youngness equals less depth. And two, the memory could almost be a metaphor for life….trying to reach and find the coins but someone else is faster. In this month of May, I’m determined to find at least one coin!

Cheers!


Mae

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