[Free]SOB

     Son of a bitch I thought my internet stopped working so I frantically spent like 20 minutes trying to fix it and then I missed the 12:00 deadline. Then I realized I pressed this button on my laptop that disables wireless connection....

     I agree that it IS scary that as we get older, we as humans become weaker physically and mentally. It is inevitable that our memory degrades, and our ability to recall events in our past accurately diminishes.  The part that I do not see eye to eye is when Stephen says "Memories are your life experiences, how you perceive your world, and in some cases your best companion.  Without memories, you essentially lose who you are and what you stand for.  I'd like to convince everyone to make as many memories as you can throughout your life because at the end of the day they're all you got." While it is true that memories are basically what you have experienced in life,  I don't think that memories are how you perceive the world.  Memories are just things you remember, they don't have anything to do with how  you perceive to world. Unlike Stephen, I think that Even if you lose memories you are still the person you are.  Your perceptions about certain things may be different , and you may act differently, but in essence you are still the same person you were, whether or not you had those memories or not. You may have memories. The good and the bad, exciting and boring, but memories do not influence the things you stand for. Memories aren't all you have, you have the whole world at your disposal. You have family, friends, pets. You can never just have your memories, there's too much in the world for one to be alone with their memories.