The problem of the 1st memory

This is my first blog entry, a little later than most but as I'm sure someone important has said in the past "Better late than never"!

I have been tasked with recalling a first memory, and I have dug and dredged through my mind for an earliest memory that I formed on my own. This has proven difficult to the point of impossibility. Luckily, the impossibility stems from something our mutual friend Nabokov was fascinated with PHOTOGRAPHY!! My parents, being card carrying members of the slowly aging Gen X, have been wielding video cameras since before I was born. The problem this causes in regards to my early childhood memories is one of "delayed memory formation" which is of course a term i have just made up.

I have been watching home movies of myself since I was old enough to speak which means i cannot vouch for any of my memories being actual memories or remembrances of a time that i watched a video of myself doing something. It's extremely complicated and more than a little bit ridiculous.

For instance, I have a memory of being 7 and watching a video of 2 year old Parker Connell playing with a set of plastic golf clubs. I remember these golfclubs very vividly not because I had fun with them, but because I had fun watching myself have fun with them. How messed up is that?

Thus concludes my first blog entry of the year.