so much of water

I think as I age that my memory is improving. It can't be that, no, it must that the power of some memories has increased over time. We are so much of water that it must define a huge part of our personalities. Our composite memories are like water in at least two ways. First, that everything that has happened to and through us is interconnected, like every drop of water in a puddle or a sea the same. Second, that in the way light plays tricks when it refracts through water, some elements are clearer in memory to us than others; or it's that in that heavily chlorinated pool we swim instinctively in the same safe laps until something in the present moment jars us from our normal rhythm, bringing new glimpses of submerged old life into clear view with frightful intensity, or at rarer times like vaguely glinting treasure.