Trace decay theory

Memory is not lost. It is eroded. We believe memory is a fragile imprint — a trace etched into the circuitry of the mind, not stored, but momentarily held, fading unless nourished. The mind is not a vault. It is an environment. Unattended, traces dissolve — like footprints in sand, like smoke in still air, like whispered names when no one listens. We reject permanence. We embrace the ephemeral. We understand that what is not revisited, reinforced, or revived — decays. Not because it is unworthy, but because time itself is a solvent. We accept forgetting as natural, not as failure, but as evolution. Decay is not destruction. It is transformation. What fades becomes part of the atmosphere. What remains was meant to be remembered — or returned to