How to Keep a Memory Alive (When You’re Afraid of Forgetting)
Some memories are so vivid it feels like they’ll never fade.
Until they do.
A scent doesn’t hit as strong. The voice gets quieter. You can’t quite picture how they looked when they were laughing.
That’s what scares most people after loss — not just grief, but forgetting.
So how do you hold onto a moment without freezing it in place?
Here are a few gentle ways to keep a memory alive:
• Write down a story — not a eulogy, but a moment. Something small and specific: the way they stirred their tea, the way your dog jumped in the leaves.
• Save a sensory object: a shirt, a collar, a recipe card. The things that hold texture, scent, or handwriting carry memory in a different way.
• Let someone else write it with you. You don’t have to do it alone.
At Spoken Mementos, I help people turn these small but powerful moments into keepsake tributes — stories you can revisit when memory feels far away.
