Re: Jack/Cat
Imagine you woke up tomorrow. You can remember most of what happened yesterday. The highlights, the drama, the people you met or you saw, the stuff that imprints on you to take away. You might remember a cup of coffee, or a button coming loose. Next week, you'll remember the person who stuck out. Or the argument you had. You'll lose the lost button and the taste of burned coffee, because there's other memories that layer over. It feels further away, but it happened recently that you remember it.
Imagine waking up and remembering last year or five years ago, like it was that argument yesterday and the person. Only you've got it in your head at the same time as you also have another version of yesterday. The two run in parallel. But because (I suppose) the memories belong to me a while ago, what I keep after a day or two isn't as vivid as real as the actual yesterday, but the bits I held onto. So I don't remember the argument I had two days ago with someone in this time-frame, because it actually happened eight years ago. Or something.
But at the same time, pieces of the jigsaw puzzle are getting put in around the edges. The big stuff that you're meant to hang onto from a month ago, or two months ago, except they belong before the party.
I'm not actually hinting. I'm trying not to interrogate and to be honest, you've probably told me quite a lot already before. If you've done that, I'm only reminding you I haven't caught up yet by asking the same questions, which seems a little insensitive. I'd rather like to remember you than ask you to tell me things. You are however, sticking out which I suppose is only the way it ought to be. I would like to know, but I don't want to demand.