‘Stuck in the Maternal Memory Loop’
Yesterday The Child turned 24. How can that be, when just yesterday The Child turned four (!)
Welcome to the world of the Maternal Memory Loop, where scenes from the past find themselves superimposed over the present. And insist on being played, and replayed, in the Maternal Head. Stuck there, until I slap myself silly (figuratively, that is) in a futile attempt to dislodge them.
See, my conscious mind knows that The Child is a Grown Woman who works in Boston as a Software Engineer. But my memory-loop mind insists that she is a Child who works in her Room as a Kindergartner. (Cue adorable photos):
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- Child hard at work with colleague, yesterday
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- Child hard at work with colleague, ‘yesterday’