Rekindling that feelin'

I was given a copy of the original greatest hits of BB King from a co-worker and it has rekindled in me an empirical sensation not felt for a long time...a curious thing, memory...we can remember emotions at given times, abstract ideas, mathematics...we can forget for some time other memories and recall them later...where do forgotten memories go? How are they triggered years later at unexpected times? Are neural connections lost? Is memory a matter of substance taking up space and time or something outside of space and time...?...makes me wish I'd stuck it out in psychology with a neural emphasis...or actually, now I'm wishing I'd stayed with music...beatin' those drums with my buddies to the rhythm of our selves...soul music, connecting the band and audience...those were the days...it's too bad my drums are disassembled in my closet...