The story you told yourself isn’t real.

Jarid Altmark
3 min readNov 14, 2022

And so are all the other lies you probably told yourself.

Imagine the earliest memory you have. What do you see? Who do you see? What do you taste or smell? I suspect that you can’t remember every sense of that moment, which is normal. Memories fade, but you also may have noticed your brain trying to fill in the gaps in the memory. With creative liberty and assumption, our brain has the power to…

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Jarid Altmark

Artist, Writer, 4x Food Network Competitor, Professional Cake Artist and Practical Overthinker.