How Do You See?

How do you see your past? Your memories?

I see mine in short clips of moments. Kinda like a really good preview of a movie, or a music video to a song written especially for a movie, thus its music video is consisted only of scenes from the movie (don't know what I'm saying? Try watching the Vindicated music video by Dashboard Confessional, written only for Spiderman 2, or try watching the previews for RENT, the movie).

I think I categorize periods of my life with songs or something. The songs that I had listened to at a certain stage of my life become the theme songs of that stage. That's why when I listen to songs like Fast Car (Tracy Chapman) or Burn One Down (Ben Harper) or L.A. Song (Beth Hart), I remember freshman year of college (2001-2) because Emily, my roommate, used to listen to those a lot. Or anything by Vertical Horizon and Goo Goo Dolls are from high school.

Kinda strange how things work in my head.

Hmmm, and I have no idea why I just wrote this. Maybe it's bcause it's 2:30 in the morning in Hong Kong.