When you're writing about the past, you're constructing it. It's fiction.
imagine swimming in other people's memories - waters hold memories / who's past am I diving into
"Good memory is not data storage. Forgetting is necessary for true memory."
“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.” — Cormac McCarthy
"My memory is my only homeland," – Anselm Kiefer