We have memory as a reference point.
It can be in our heads or written or drawn or imagined.
It can be imagined by ourselves or by others.
Once there is a pattern to refer to, we become a combination of the pattern and ourselves however they are at that moment.
So it is this hybrid, this time-chimera of real and pattern that we are, ever-changing and ever the same.
To entirely forget and to be entirely incapable of remembering would be the solution that resolves in a continual living and dying and changing reality.
We could have no language
There could be no relationship
And it would be very alien
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