Lost the Words

Yesterday, I was looking online at a video composed of clips of music videos, with misheard lyrics at the bottom. I found the video to be quite amusing, but it was not the video I was looking for. The video I was looking for was similar, a series of segments of songs with misheard lyrics, but here the video was changed to match what was being described by the song (both heard and misheard). The two segments I remember were Starship saying that they built this city on raw ham rolls, and Iggy Azalea talking about being fancy and telling people to look at this scone. The video was in the sidebar of a lyrics website, so it may have been an advertisement for the website, pointing out just how easily lyrics can be misheard, and the ease with which someone can check what the actual lyrics are on that specific website. Or it may have been something else entirely; I didn't see much of the video, so I'm just speculating.

This keeps happening. I see something, I make a mental (and occasionally physical) note about it, with the understanding that I will look it up some time later, when I'm not so busy/tired. Several weeks/months later, I suddenly think of the thing, except I barely remember the details, and I misplaced the scrap of paper I put the physical note on. I'll try doing an online search for the thing, come up empty-handed, get discouraged, go do something else for a while, and forget about the thing I wanted to look up entirely. Then, a several weeks/months later, I think of it again, and try finding it again.

Another problem is that if I try to hard to remember something, I run the risk of falsifying a memory. I create a fake memory of something that never happened, and convince myself that it is (or was) real, which only serves to lead me further off-base in my search and my thoughts.

It's frightening to think about just how easily we can end up mistaken about something, whether by our own actions or the actions of someone else.