How Affected Are We

How Affected Are We?

How do our evasive memories affect our daily lives? All the way
From food to perfume to character traits, wedged there in memory waiting to say
What their cumulative response is to what we're experiencing today.
Sometimes we have a strong and definite awareness; we can't describe or say.

We attempt to analyze and evaluate with what we can reconstruct
Of this particular flashback. Sometimes we almost grasp before "destruct."
But I am sure we are each a product of every experience of our days,
Some influencing more than others. Some emit "turn-off," some emit "praise."

How much this accumulation affects our today is totally unknown,
But we are all aware of this concept and we realize we're not alone.
It's a human thing, and we go with what we have to progress.
We're all reaching for perfection, but some take a lot longer than others, we confess.