Hyperthymesia

According to Wikipedia:

"Hyperthymesia or hyperthymestic syndrome is a condition where the affected individual has a superior autobiographical memory. The two defining characteristics of hyperthymesia are 1) the person spends an abnormally large amount of time thinking about his or her personal past, and 2) the person has an extraordinary capacity to recall specific events from their personal past."

Can you imagine that? Remembering everything? Everything? Granted, it's an extremely rare condition, with only two known people with hyperthymesia in the world, but the very idea boggles my mind.

I don't think there's anything more merciful, more healing, than the reliable knowledge that memory is but a fleeting concept - selective and forgiving. You hold on to the good ones and embellish them a little bit further so that everything is rosy pink, and you blur the unpleasant ones, and comepletely delete (and then empty recycle bin) those ones that are known to cause a stabbing pain every time you recall them.

But if you can't help but remember the most mundane details, wouldn't you be terrified of even forming any memories?

Terrifying.