Comments on: What is your first memory of unhappiness? http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/what-is-your-first-memory-of-unhappiness.html A writer neither here nor there Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:41:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: kathryn http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/what-is-your-first-memory-of-unhappiness.html#comment-216 Sun, 21 May 2006 09:21:22 +0000 http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/what-is-your-first-memory-of-unhappiness.html#comment-216 I've always found the miserable bastards to be most interesting... I’ve always found the miserable bastards to be most interesting…

]]> by: Steve Kane http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/what-is-your-first-memory-of-unhappiness.html#comment-215 Sun, 21 May 2006 08:18:16 +0000 http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/what-is-your-first-memory-of-unhappiness.html#comment-215 Frankly, for as long as I can remember I've always been a miserable bastard. Frankly, for as long as I can remember I’ve always been a miserable bastard.

]]> by: kathryn http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/what-is-your-first-memory-of-unhappiness.html#comment-208 Sun, 14 May 2006 06:05:05 +0000 http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/what-is-your-first-memory-of-unhappiness.html#comment-208 Hi Nabeel - thanks for answering. A sense of longing at 10 or 11, huh. Memories at that age do seem to be more emotionally articulate. Hi Nabeel - thanks for answering. A sense of longing at 10 or 11, huh. Memories at that age do seem to be more emotionally articulate.

]]> by: Nabeel http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/what-is-your-first-memory-of-unhappiness.html#comment-206 Fri, 12 May 2006 03:44:18 +0000 http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/what-is-your-first-memory-of-unhappiness.html#comment-206 I don't know how old .. aaa .. I think 10 or 11 years old .. I don’t know how old .. aaa .. I think 10 or 11 years old ..

]]> by: tom http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/what-is-your-first-memory-of-unhappiness.html#comment-203 Tue, 09 May 2006 19:18:36 +0000 http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/what-is-your-first-memory-of-unhappiness.html#comment-203 We're a right old pair. Jackson's well out of it. Poor thing. We’re a right old pair.

Jackson’s well out of it. Poor thing.

]]> by: kathryn http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/what-is-your-first-memory-of-unhappiness.html#comment-202 Tue, 09 May 2006 16:56:05 +0000 http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/what-is-your-first-memory-of-unhappiness.html#comment-202 Ha-ha! That's funny, Tom. My dreams often reflect the terror in my waking life - whether it's personal or global - the fear is there and, like in your childhood dreams, I'm always running - through strange labyrinthine spaces - from something or someone. Ha-ha! That’s funny, Tom. My dreams often reflect the terror in my waking life - whether it’s personal or global - the fear is there and, like in your childhood dreams, I’m always running - through strange labyrinthine spaces - from something or someone.

]]> by: tom http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/what-is-your-first-memory-of-unhappiness.html#comment-201 Mon, 08 May 2006 19:38:59 +0000 http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/what-is-your-first-memory-of-unhappiness.html#comment-201 No idea what caused the nightmares. All I can remember was the feeling of not being able to escape from something. My childhood was otherwise very happy. Nowadays my dreams are nearly always nice. It's when I wake up I get terrified. No idea what caused the nightmares. All I can remember was the feeling of not being able to escape from something. My childhood was otherwise very happy. Nowadays my dreams are nearly always nice. It’s when I wake up I get terrified.

]]> by: kathryn http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/what-is-your-first-memory-of-unhappiness.html#comment-200 Mon, 08 May 2006 19:18:06 +0000 http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/what-is-your-first-memory-of-unhappiness.html#comment-200 Interesting, Tom, that anguish about the world first appeared as terror. A kind of inarticulate terror. I wonder what the cause of those nightmares were? The earliest nightmare I remember was when I was five or six or seven - well, it was sort of a waking nightmare - I saw my cat, Jackson, appear in the corner of the bedroom in the night and then multiply so that there were many Jacksons descending down upon me as I lay in bed. As I remember it - the next day I found Jackson dead. I've always considered that dream predictive, but now I believe that I've distorted the memory and what must have happened was that I found Jackson first and then had the scary nightmare vision thing. That's the scariest memory in my life - but as far as anguish about the world, I still can't think of a precise memory of my first articulation of it. I have a feeling that it must have come during my teens and not childhood at all. Apart from a great fear of the dark, my childhood seems to have been very very secure and happy. Interesting, Tom, that anguish about the world first appeared as terror. A kind of inarticulate terror. I wonder what the cause of those nightmares were? The earliest nightmare I remember was when I was five or six or seven - well, it was sort of a waking nightmare - I saw my cat, Jackson, appear in the corner of the bedroom in the night and then multiply so that there were many Jacksons descending down upon me as I lay in bed. As I remember it - the next day I found Jackson dead. I’ve always considered that dream predictive, but now I believe that I’ve distorted the memory and what must have happened was that I found Jackson first and then had the scary nightmare vision thing. That’s the scariest memory in my life - but as far as anguish about the world, I still can’t think of a precise memory of my first articulation of it. I have a feeling that it must have come during my teens and not childhood at all. Apart from a great fear of the dark, my childhood seems to have been very very secure and happy.

]]> by: tom http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/what-is-your-first-memory-of-unhappiness.html#comment-199 Mon, 08 May 2006 08:37:53 +0000 http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/what-is-your-first-memory-of-unhappiness.html#comment-199 My first solid memory (I only have vague recollections previous to it) was also my first unhappy memory. I chipped a bone in my left arm when I was four when I (fool) refused to get out of someone's soapbox cart and they pushed me out sideways on to a concrete road. It hurt a lot. But I didn't cry. I was a "brave boy." Ha-ha. But unhappy as far as anguished about the world came when I had a series of very frightening nightmares a year or two later. I can't remember what they were about now, but at the time they terrified me. It got so bad the doctor sent me to have my brain checked out on an electroencephalograph. I have the rare honour of being certified sane at a very young age! My first solid memory (I only have vague recollections previous to it) was also my first unhappy memory. I chipped a bone in my left arm when I was four when I (fool) refused to get out of someone’s soapbox cart and they pushed me out sideways on to a concrete road. It hurt a lot. But I didn’t cry. I was a “brave boy.” Ha-ha. But unhappy as far as anguished about the world came when I had a series of very frightening nightmares a year or two later. I can’t remember what they were about now, but at the time they terrified me. It got so bad the doctor sent me to have my brain checked out on an electroencephalograph. I have the rare honour of being certified sane at a very young age!

]]> by: kathryn http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/what-is-your-first-memory-of-unhappiness.html#comment-198 Sat, 06 May 2006 06:44:59 +0000 http://www.kathrynkoromilas.com/what-is-your-first-memory-of-unhappiness.html#comment-198 How old were you at the time, Nabeel? This is interesting - unhappiness as an experience of loss and longing. Or, maybe, the experience of change from one state (with mother) to another (without mother). How old were you at the time, Nabeel? This is interesting - unhappiness as an experience of loss and longing. Or, maybe, the experience of change from one state (with mother) to another (without mother).

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