Short Story: Memories
Prologue
(Only first two chapters are in First Person)
They say, memories never fade. They could not be more wrong. Sometimes, no matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, your every precious memory would leave you and you could just wait to die. I was a supporter of 'People change but memories never', until few days back, the day when I was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Now I support, 'People change and sometimes memories also vanish!'. I dread that day when I would wake up one morning and ask for my own name.
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They say I have my mother's smile and father's voice.I have never seen or met them, they died soon after my birth, then how could I smile like her and talk like him? What connects me to them? I had always wondered when I was a kid. Genes! Genes connect us. Isn't it fascinating, sperm and egg could carry whole bunch of characteristics. This fascination led me to pursue genetics. As far as memories are concerned, they don't fade, they can never, at least in my case. I have an eidetic memory, best known as photographic memory. I could never forget a thing if I have seen it once but someone very close to me whom I love immensely would forget even my existence someday and I could just sit and blame my fate.
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They say time is the best healer. Who cares what they say? At least I do not! Some wounds can never be healed. Memories fade, yes they do but some memories never blur. In my case that one memory never lets me live in peace. Let me ask you a question, how would you feel when you wake up one day, you wish 'Good Morning' to the most important person of your life and instead of a simple, 'Good Morning', you get an awkward smile and an Earth shattering question is thrown at your way, 'I am sorry, do I know you?'. This memory never left me and would never leave me. I had seen Alzheimer's taking away my most precious belonging.
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Arnav, Anjali and Khushi were living their life peacefully when a storm called Alzheimer's disease hit them. A disease that doesn't give an ounce of physical pain but it crushes you mentally. Memories work in a complicated way, sometimes there is no way to shut away a painful memory and sometimes there is no way to capture them in a bottle and never let it fade. But as they say if Love is strong, nothing can make it fade because it is not a memory, it is a feeling that remains with you for forever.
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Synopsis
Anjali Raizada suffers from early on-set Alzheimer's which is genetic. Her geneticist brother, Arnav Singh Raizada is devastated after getting this news but he is hopeful to find a cure. He finds a caregiver for his sister, Khushi Gupta who has seen this disease from very close. What happens when two people with different ideology come together to save a person, whose memories are doomed and blurred for forever?
Information regarding few important things:
Alzheimer's disease: It is a disease that gradually makes one forget everything, it starts with small things and takes the patient to the a point where he/she doesn't even remember their language, their relatives or anything else.
Eidetic memory: There is nothing called eidetic or popularly known as photographic memory. In other words, some people have sharp memory, they can remember so many things just after looking at these things just once but there is no ideal eidetic memory, science defies the concept. So in practical world, eidetic memory is remembering number of things just looking at those things once or twice but it is not perfect😊
Story: This is a romance story with a touch of human relations. It is nothing like my last story Chaos which was very unconventional. Also only first two chapters are in First Person, so if you are not comfortable with it, bear with me till chapter two.
PMs:
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Index:
Chapter 3: Unpleasant Rendezvous
Chapter 4: When Raizada Meets His Match
Chapter 5: The Girl With Firefly tattoo
Chapter 8: There Is Something About Him
Chapter 9: Phenomenon of Romance
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