Emotional Memory

I never knew there is such a word as emotional memory until i was googling something and stumbled upon it. We have a whole set of definitions, wiki pages, scholarly articles and on going researches for same.

Basically its an emotion attached to a event of past in our memory.

Have you noticed that how we may not remember the granular details of the event clearly but we exactly remember how we felt that day or in that moment. Its maybe surprising for some that the same emotion can be evoked by just remembering that event with the same intensity at the time of event, you can feel same amount of love, anger, grief, pain, joy, envy or jealousy simply by remembering an event.

Sometimes the emotion change over the period of time, as time goes by and you get older, you can feel reverse of the emotion, like your wedding day, the emotions that get triggered by looking at the photographs of your wedding day can be different in each decade. You may feel happy and joyous in initial decades, but after few decades you may cry looking at same photos as people present would no longer be with you now.

For some people its really difficult sometimes to let go of things, forgive someone, move on etc. because they are not tied down to the things a person did, but actually how that person has made them feel.

There is a saying - 

They may forget what you said - but they will never forget how you made them feel