In fact, distractions have a way of messing up your brain's ability to focus, leading you to ask, "What was I working on again?" "We need to have an environment that nurtures memory function," Monique M. Williams, assistant professor of medicine and psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine, told Live Science.
As a nation Brits nurture memories of empire that are deceptively cosy, swathed in a warm, sepia-tinted glow of paternalistic benevolence.
Clearly boys/men that grew up during the Bosnian war were nurturing memories of the lost life in Yugoslavia, seaside vacations on Adriatic coast, singing around the bonfires on the beach with someone playing a guitar, when college meant you complained about professors, you fell in love and enjoyed life not worrying about the strapping financial debt you might be incurring.
Hanna Yablonka, a professor of history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, says the film highlights what she calls the "yellow aspects of nurturing the memory of the Holocaust".
Her loss leaves us all deeply saddened but nurturing loving memories of this extraordinary person and the life she so richly lived.
Decline has been a Europe-wide experience, though attempts have been made to nurture fading memories: Sedgefield, Tony Blair's Co Durham constituency, is twinned with Rheinhausen in Germany, another old mining town.
And while I know you probably nurture fond memories of Sea Biscuit, let's face it.
"The more you nurture your memories of her, the more she'll be in your awareness forever," Chopra says.
I am nurtured by memories of riding with my grandfather on his tractor and cooling off in the river, building my dream house and performing some of the best math of my career at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
So I think that it's both older people doing it themselves, nurturing these memories and reflecting on their lives, but it's also our role as younger people to help them to do it, to express interest in it and be a part of their reminiscing and summing up their life into a meaningful story.
Football is a game of memories, memory nurtured in the name of revenge, memory harbored for the sake of atonement.
