I can only keep track of stories

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It's not that my memory is weak, I think it is normal.

I mean we find patterns and that makes us humans.

During human evolution, pattern processing capabilities became increasingly sophisticated as the result of the expansion of the cerebral cortex

So why do we try to focus so much on memorising random things. I have no such time for remembering random things. I remember stories. And I think that makes it so hard for me to write, non fiction.

Why the hell would one write non-fiction, non-fictions makes no sense, it's not humane by nature, while stories are superior, it makes us see the world through the patterns of life we see.

Its not just life but the abstraction of life too, sadness, happiness, jealousy, love so many things can only be seen through stories. Even when we are writing non-fiction we are trying to invoke a set of emotions replicating what a story does, wonder? the joy of learning or finding out?

Why then should I remember anything else but stories? Why should I try to connect my fragmented stories while my brain only responds to the opposite? I think that is the reason when we become too engrossed in academia we lose track of reality. Because academia tends to break down and analyse the reality. Which is not natural.