Mikaela Shiffrin
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1,038 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 18 Jun
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It's more of an essence really.
And something that's like embedded in your skin.
Smells, visuals, those things are so...
so powerful.
I've been so afraid that I would lose those things.
And to be honest, like forgetting has been one of my biggest fears and I have forgotten a lot.
Some memories I can bring up if I try to think about it, you know, I've lived 25 years and at least 20 of those years, I remember things that have happened.
And I only have a handful of memories to really pick from.
with my dad in them.
I'm like, how can that be 25 years of life?
And I've got like enough memories that I could count on both hands basically.
But then I think memories maybe show up in a weird way.
It's not so much like a story in a book as it is
just a feeling that kind of passes through you and you almost don't even know that it exists.
And that's been something like, I think, especially for kids or for anybody out there who is experiencing recent loss and having that fear of forgetting, which I really felt you're going to have like a different way of understanding what memory means.
Because we talk about memories as like things that have happened in your life as if,
They're on a TV screen that you can watch or in a book that you can read.
And I think what makes it so hard to explain grief is that it's like operating in a different time-space continuum where memories don't exist as a book you can read, but they're really just a sensation, maybe a smell.
But words don't do it justice, which is why I've become maybe less afraid of forgetting.
I do feel that within me pretty constantly is like,
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