memory is ephemeral, memory escapes us, memory resists a container. let me be clear: memory isn’t storage, it’s essence. it is a fundamentally human way of seeing and meaning-making. even as social media archives our lives, it cannot preserve the feelings we experience and the fragment of self carried in the haze of recollection. it’s just as much about what we forget as what we remember: years after a moment evaporates, details fade but the feelings remain. it’s lossy by design - forgetting is a feature, not a bug.