Sam Silver
COM 241-E: Intro to Sound, Image & Motion
Blog #1: Earliest Memory
17 September 2014
My Earliest Memory
While I was dipping into my memory banks
for a good story, I was surprised to find that my earliest memory was
describing Will Smith’s, “Willenium” album to my first grade teacher Mrs.
Babcock. The typical routine at my elementary school was that school would end
around three o’clock and the students would be released to wait on a concrete
slab outside of our classrooms until our guardians arrived, at which point we
could go play on the playground while the parents talked or we would just go
home. My parents were usually pretty good about picking me up reasonably close
to this time but on this day I remember waiting for what seemed like forever
but was actually probably about 10 minutes extra. My teacher, being the nice
lady that she was, was talking to me about what was new in my life which, for a
first grade version of me, usually meant what new toy I had to play with. So I
start going into excruciating detail about this album to her which in
retrospect I’m sure leveled the playing field and made those ten minutes feel
equally as never ending for her as they did for me. I asked her how old her
daughter was and told her that she should buy the CD for her because it was
just the raddest thing ever without being dirty or too hard to understand.
The
irony that I remember this when I have desperately claw at my mind to remember
simple mathematical equations and facts for classes that I spend hours studying
for is not lost on me. In fact, I’m going to have to disagree with the Young
Sam on this point. Mrs. Babcock was right to not buy this album for her
daughter. Now I am a 21-year-old college senior who is looking to join the
working world and contribute to society who remembers the lyrics to, “Will 2K”
but has to sing a lengthy song to himself to remember what month comes after
August. That said, I am glad that I wrote this post as I have a night of reminiscing
about my childhood with Will Smith acting as the catalyst for these memories
and, at times, the narrator.
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