#217 Estée Lauder

You never realize that you're making a memory at the moment something's actually happening. Stranger still, the strongest memories are those you never dreamed would survive, and would be inextricably linked to your future. Momentous happenings can lie buried in the past, while tiny, needle sharp split seconds sometimes stay with you forever. They happen in a moment and they tug at your memory. Endlessly.

They live always. Just below your consciousness. I remember the woman at the Florence Morris beauty salon where I had my first cosmetics concession. She was thoughtless and will always remain that way in my mind. Maybe she was a catalyst for good in the end.

Maybe I wouldn't have become Estee Lauder if it hadn't been for her. At the moment she was cast in my memory. To last there forever. I despised her. Simply thinking about that incident brings back a twinge of pain.

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