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(nb: whenever a star appears next to the number in the title, this means that the day's question will be a question for further thought on the one previously asked)

Q: Which is more important, actual experiences, or the memories that remain when the experiences are over?

A: I believe actual experiences are more important.  Of course memory serves a purpose, especially in an artistic sense when memory can stir emotion and evoke another time.  However, all we ever have is the present, a series of 'current' moments that we drift through life with.  We can never go back down the stream, back to a place where momentum took us once, but won't take us again.  It's the natural flow of things.