You're Going to Forget this Video

how much of your life do you remember effort into remembering things I'm sitting in Black in class some guy from 1508 how do you even know who that is I don't even know who I am yet I'm supposed to remember who that guy is it's interesting because I don't think that we remember most of the little things that happen in life for example you're probably not gonna remember that I said this by the end of this video let's be honest you won't I'll test you we'll see if you do you win a little cookie all right how about that it's a nice little incentive do you even remember that I started this video off with a completely different shirt on you already forgot about that didn't you it's not looking good for you bro I spent so much time trying to hold on to these little moments in life I take constant pictures I have journal entries I make playlists of places that I've been and all the songs that I listened to while I was there I just try to feel like I was there and I don't want to lose those tiny moments recently my phone got destroyed at the beach and I lost all that four years of photos and videos like probably like 40 000 pictures I know I didn't put them in the cloud all right I don't trust the cloud I've seen nope I regret it now yes I would literally pay one thousand dollars for those pictures back like they're they're Priceless to me I'd rather have those memories than any car clothes I don't care about any of that stuff I have two pairs of shoes a couple pairs of jeans and 365 pairs of underwear all right I keep it modest it's the little things that make me the happiest the tiny conversations with people that we would definitely forget moments when you're driving and there's a Sunset and there's a perfect song playing I don't want to forget this stuff man I spent so much time trying to remember these things and they're all gone now I spent all that time collecting and organizing pictures and I just lost them all because I didn't trust Tim Apple I was really like bro what is the point of remembering anything it's like bro our ancestors didn't have any of this stuff to remember anything 300 years ago if you don't remember what happened that day's lost a time it's gone you could have wrote a journal or something if you didn't it's a wrap if they forgot something they just forgot okay like if I if I want to remember anything oh yeah what happened in June of 2018 I could just literally go and look into the archives and see exactly what I was doing that day but I wonder if they had a stronger memory just because they had to recall information are we like losing the memory muscle I set alarms to remind myself of something and in 30 minutes the alarm goes off and I don't remember why I even set the alarm where's my keys where's my phone Where'd I put the remote my charger I'm moving like Dory I might have been overdoing it when I was taking all these pictures at a certain point I think I was keeping myself from living in the moment my thinking was if I forget the moment what's the point did it even happen like memory might be a top three most interesting thing to me in life you can create memories about things that didn't even happen like you can be a witness at a crime scene and remember something completely different to how it actually went down sometimes I just like to create memories and convince myself they actually happen because why not trick my brain a little bit remember my Ace Kimberly she was beautiful I hope she's doing well she's not real that never happened as humans we're just a forgetful people that's how addictions start dude you can say I hate this thing it sucks I'm never doing it again and then suddenly you blink and you're back there doing what you just told yourself you would never do what happened you forgot it goes a little deeper than that but even with overthinking I'm like I'm done overthinking but how can I be done overthinking if I have already thought that I'm thinking about the thought of thinking overly thought that could think of the dream of the thought I think forgetting is just a scary concept to me in general we can have a whole conversation I think back to it like 10 seconds later I'm like what did we even just talk about where did that conversation go it's gone I'm gonna be honest with you I completely forgot that leaves even changed color in the fall like the fall just appeared and I was like oh yeah that does happen that's just the brain retaining what it considers to be the most important information and leaving out what it doesn't think that all right I don't know bro this isn't Vsauce all right I was making that up I don't know I'm just here to talk about how this stuff feels that's why I think Alzheimer's is like the scariest disease to me at least top three like if we were to make a tier list that is an s-tier disease in terms of scariness the idea of forgetting family members you've known your whole life is terrifying this video is getting too dark what were we talking about [Music] I don't think it's crazy to say that we are our memories basically everything I've done to this point has led me to who I am right now if I forgot all of that who would I be to be I would be a blank I'll be a blank slave if something bad happened I'm not gonna do it again because last time I did it it went poorly I think memories are important to me because they give me the big picture literally I like them because it reminds me that everything is fine today seems bad but in the grand scheme of things today is just the day and a sea of a lot of days and there were a lot of great days something great might have happened last month that I just completely forgot about the memories were friends the accomplishments that I've had the fact that I've been stressed before and made it out like I look back to certain moments where I was like I read my journal entries where I was stressed about certain things and I look I'm like bro what were you worried about I love how there's so many ways to remember like you could taste food and it takes you back to a certain time you can just smell something and it takes you to 15 years ago you've seen Ratatouille you know how this works I have a pretty good memory when it comes to remembering moments related to music or film like if you tell me the name of any movie or album that came out in the last 20 years I'll tell you what year it came out maybe down to the month basically I know a lot of Pointless Stuff by the way the movie Holes came out in April 2003 and made about 70 mil in the box office this is just information I know one of my favorite new artists right now Fred again he uses voice clips from people that he was around and he like puts them together makes music out of moments in his life and that's a beautiful thing now he's sharing those moments and people are creating new moments in their lives bro it's actually let's I just realized that he is creating music out of the moments in his life that you can remember now forever and now people are dancing to his music creating new moments in their lives wow this is beautiful this is beautiful but forgetting is also a good thing I'm realizing forgetting is actually pretty underrated because you don't want to remember everything there are some things I wish I could just Eternal Sunshine wipe out of my mind I don't want to remember a lot of the times where people were mean to me I don't want to dwell on that and make it like my identity like oh I have to show those people I have to prove all those people wrong and at that point I'm living for those people Matthew from gym class in fourth grade I remember he said I'll never be anything I'm going to show Matthew from gym class is in jail for manslaughter he doesn't care he has bigger things to worry about than you forgetting gives you a chance to heal the distance away from things in time makes it easier to get over things the thing is if you spend so much time trying to remember you don't actually enjoy what you're trying to remember whenever I would be trying to like take these pictures and do whatever to capture this moment just so I wouldn't forget it I'm only enjoying this thing in hindsight when I look in the pictures and I'm like oh wow that was a great time but when I was actually in the moment I was stressed out try to make sure I remembered it does this make any sense I don't even post like that on Instagram anymore actually I just did start doing that again follow me right here Bob but whenever I do it's even more stressed trying to figure out the exact right amount of slides to do try to get the right caption trying to make sure my memories are perfect for everybody else forget that man you know what I'm back off Instagram lately I've been trying to allow myself to forget things living in the moment knowing I might just not remember this but I just get to enjoy it while it's here the thing is how do you remember the right things and in the right way some people have great memories and then all they do is remember the bad things that ever happened to them it's me by the way I I'm some people sometimes the bad things stick out more the thing is sometimes you choose what to remember it's easy to forget the hundred amazing things that happen in life and just feel focused that you have to get to the next amazing thing thinking that number 101 will make you the happiest sometimes your memory isn't the reality you have to get out of your own head and look at what your life actually is but your memory is what shapes your perspective and your perspective is what shapes basically how you do everything in life I'm trying to remember the people that supported me instead of the ones that didn't remember the times where things went right instead of when they went wrong Remember the Time by Michael Jackson and trying to journal more remind myself of what I have instead of what I don't trying to focus my memory on what would shape my perspective better instead of being on on Instagram posting every day y'all didn't believe in me look at me now the comments are like brother we still don't believe in you moral of the story is uh back up your phone what you're watching right now you'll probably forget by tomorrow you probably forget that you ever even watch this video what I'm saying right now I won't remember in a year but that's okay Isn't it nice that we're just here right now in this moment right here with me and you what's going on this is fun does anyone relate to this or am I just talking into the void let me know leave a comment saying anything that you want to remember and you can come back and look at this video and be like oh yeah that's what it was you might as well like this video because let's be honest it's a modest classic and you thought I wasn't gonna test you that thing from the beginning of the video you forgot about that didn't you do you remember that I said this well you probably won't remember what I'm saying right now at the end of this video I have two belly buttons I don't know how you forgot that I said that I told you weren't gonna remember you're finished [Music]

Channel: Nathan Zed

Views: 394,646

Keywords: nathanzed, nathan zed, remembering, memories, you're going to forget this video, vsauce, memento, instagram, social media, apple, fred again, music, forgetting, bereal, taking pictures, quitting social media, remember, memory, why we forget, why we remember

Id: -cJfZR59p-A

Length: 8min 32sec (512 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 17 2022