Where Does A Thought Go When It’s Forgotten?

An organized chaos of chemical explosions has erupted around you in less time than it takes for you to blink an eye. As you draw in your next breath, an electrical circuit of neurons fire to create a passing moment-a fleeting contemplation, and without any record of this emission of pure and powerful energy, it eventually vanishes.

According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, a thought is “the intellectual product or the organized views and principles of a period, place, group, or individual.” It’s an intangible item that can evolve into a tangible product in the physical world. The thoughts that I am currently thinking are instantaneously being translated into American English just before the fingers on my hands type them out using a keyboard. My thoughts then become words on a screen that get downloaded into the minds of the handful of people who are reading this. But what happens to the words that do not make it onto the page? Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?

I often experience the waning of memory slowly dissipating into the fog of nothingness without reminders prompted by photos or stories stitched together with legible words. They all do not completely disappear, but the vivid emersion into the correct combination of emotions and carefully painted images using wavelengths of light are not the same when I try to revisit…