Memory memories

Isn't it odd how the mind plays tricks? Memory is fluid, it's not always constant. In "The adventures of Sherlock Holmes", it states that the accuracy of memory depends upon the experience it presents. A happy experience is often remembered inaccurately, as emotions can taint the recording. Negative experiences are often recorded more accurately since such things as fear and hate do not taint the memory so.

I believe that this is why it is so much easier to feel unhappy. You can more accurately (and therefore more quickly) recall unhappy memories. Because happy ones are more difficult to recall they may not have the same impact, or are indeed easier to delete.

I guess it's not just my mind that hates me.

But then, I could be completely wrong. I am afterall using my memory for the majority of this theory. I may have been too happy whilst reading that marvellous peice of fiction (although admittedly Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was way ahead of his time and based such theories on actual principles), and remembered it inacurately. Hell, I may have the whole thing back to front. But then, does that not go some way to proving my point? Memory is unreliable, no matter how you look at it.