Memories Of What I Remember & Why ?

I have forgotten twice on what I had planned to write on and hence opted Memory, Memories and the tricks it play on us. It is very strange if you think of what u remember and what u tend to forget. Whose name we successfully relate with faces and whose we fail to recollect.
I have always been fascinated by the way our brain works in storing these data. We remember something that happened 10 years ago yet don’t know about what dress we wore last week. It is like a selective amnesia, but the only difference is that we don’t have control on what to keep and what not to.
What is the oldest memory you have, do you remember the class teacher you had in kindergarten or the annoying boy/girl who sat next to you in 2nd Std. I don’t, remember anything so old, is it just me or a common phenomena.
We all have this Ghajini syndrome but the only difference is that the time may wary (5 Minutes) shorter or longer and we also don’t have private jets and Kalpana on our side lol. Have you had this feeling when you hear the occasional humming of an old song or an odd smell reminding of you some past events? In our school (aka pvs) in 8th /9th and 10th standard we had this warden who played this same cassette in luud speakers every day at 5:00 Am to wake us up (yes i was spoiled by comfort and useless rituals). It was from an AR Rahman block buster called Sapnay (Minsarakanavu) and even now when I hear that song on radio I get this yawning and sleepy sleepy feeling out of the blue.
But a fading memory is a boon in disguise, what if you remembered everything that has happened to you both good and bad. What if you can’t get over a brawl, argument at home, guilt etc? We are made like this for a reason may be the art of forgetting meant us some relief on forgetting what we had to forget. I couldn’t dare think of a situation where you can forget the loss of a dear one, a true friend, a spouse. We have solutions for forgetting day to day events like reminders, to do lists, wake up calls etc. Some of us got so dependant on these that you might not be surprised to find people putting reminders for natures call hehehe.
So if this post turns out to be really boring, I wish the systematic amnesia works out faster in making you remember that I had written crap like this ever.

Namashkar