Remember anticipating your college acceptance letter?
Despite wholly believing that girls' and women's value is not derived from appearance, I'm as much a product of our culture as anyone, and I frankly cannot remember anticipating an occasion -- the first day of a job, a wedding, a date, an interview -- without wondering, at least briefly, if I had time to lose five pounds or if I needed a different red lipstick.
The critic Barbara Hardy wrote in 1968 that "we dream in narrative, day-dream in narrative, remember, anticipate, hope, despair, believe, doubt, plan, revise, criticize, construct, gossip, learn, hate and love by narrative".
"I look at that photograph now and see someone who is very insecure and vulnerable, but I didn't think about those things when I was 14," said Ms. Kinney, now 34, who remembers anticipating that the session would feel like a glamorous modeling shoot.
I remember eagerly anticipating opening night in Chicago after seeing the brilliant trailer months before.
It may be that Clive, incapable of remembering or anticipating events because of his amnesia, is able to sing and play and conduct music because remembering music is not, in the usual sense, remembering at all.
And remember to anticipate success -- nothing beats a prepared and confident candidate with a winning attitude!
Remember to anticipate at least 5 minutes before the scheduled potty time to train the parrot to go to their potty perch before they have to go potty.
I remember standing awkwardly, anticipating the seismic effect of my feet slapping on the cold sand and discomfort of it on my thighs, when a smug woman next to me gave a horsey laugh and said, "Someone had their Christmas lunch early, eh?" Fuck doing it again after that.
In so doing, the woman we remember as Mary Bowser anticipated the power her story still holds today.
The remembering (or, the anticipating?
