Memory

I was talking to my friend Chan about incidents that happened a decade ago, like when we were kidnapped by gangsters in Shenzhen. His recall of the details is amazing and I realised that my long term memory for details is shit. I get the overall vibe right, but my anecdotal retelling of the events slowly morphs. It appears I have more original thoughts than many people but that my memory for details is crap. Unless the details are technical in which case I remember everything.