Why can't I remember shit!

Damn!

My daughter is blessed with a very sharp extremely vivid memory like all kids. She can easily recall incidents, vacation trips, good - bad memories with precise details and share it all starting with the prefix "Yesterday we had gone to... Or yesterday we ate this...or Yesterday this happened..."  However, this yesterday is spread over and covers her memories spanning 2 years. While I can't remember shit! (don't mind my language).

I have come to believe that when we are taught chronology in history, our memories post our formative years for the majority of us turns inaccessible. We still remember what we were taught before we learnt chronology. Our poems in kindergarten, learnings from the very distant past still are easily accessible as compared to what we learnt in school, college or the day before yesterday. Strange but true.

Reasons

• You could blame it on a broken education system where teaching is seen as a noble profession but there is no congruence seen in their salaries.
• You could blame it on our abilities to store limited memories for recall
• You could say no I don't agree, I can access all my memories as and when I want ( I say you're blessed)

Alternative explanation

PARALLEL memories

Yesterday Today Tomorrow recall
Think of our memories like a huge library. As a child since we don't know chronology, we classify memories as yesterday, experiences as today and the future as tomorrow. So my daughter can easily recall her memories as for her the past is a single huge easily accessible bookshelf in her minds library titled YESTERDAY. So any memory 2 years ago or yesterday is easily accessible or recalled. I call this phenomena PARALLEL memories recall.

LINEAR Memories

Past Present Future recall
As we grow into adults our memories are then classified into past-complex (kindergarten, primary, secondary, higher secondary, college, post-graduation, first job, second job, two years ago, a  year ago, few months ago, last month, last week, day before yesterday and yesterday and so on...), present experiences as today and the future-complex as tomorrow, next month, next year etc with goals set or deadlines fixed. So our library of memories is linear i.e our oldest memories are stored right at the back of the library twenty kilometres away to the most recent a few feet away, apart from our kindergarten years that learnt that too has a small place on this first bookshelf just a foot away. I call these LINEAR memories

So my question is has chronology reprogrammed our mind to make our memories inaccessible as adults?

• So as politicians say, the junta has a short memory they will forget about corruption and move on.

If you have a sensitive family member or spouse, don't you ever wonder as to how they can perfectly recall all the incidents where you have let them down as soon as you have accidentally hit their trigger. When someone is emotionally sensitive, their bad memories are stored on a parallel bookshelf while the good memories are stored on a linear bookshelf in their minds library.
A spouse stuck in an abusive marriage is a perfect example of how a someone who has a linear memory lets go and persists with the person who abuses, while the one who abuses has a parallel memory and persists with the abusing at the drop of a trigger.

I end with this thought
The latest research has shown, time is a parallel concept, not a linear one as we believe it to be. I truly believe that the best minds and gurus know this and utilise this when answering very difficult questions impromptu.