What's left of it now....
On this page I'd like you to grab few blank papers or a diary to start writing your habits, in the next paper write your beliefs, in another write down your thoughts, in the next paper write your likings. Be honest with yourself because nobody else in the world will be seeing whatever you have written in these papers. You will impress nobody.
On a new day whenever you find some more time for yourself, take another fresh paper. Grab a cup of coffee, sit and make yourself comfortable, clear your brain from office, TV serials, baseball score, your desires, and your plans. Spending time with your past will be like making the foundation of what you will be doing in the future, and you cannot lay the foundation unless you dig out that mud which is already occupying the area. The stronger the foundation, the higher and taller can be your tower of self-realization and self-control.
I'm using the word "try" because I completely understand the fact that with passing time our lifestyle have turned into a running machine, this have affected our human brain a lot too. Now the most difficult part in life is to calm & clear your brain from any kind of thoughts. Sadly our brains have got into habit of thinking... thinking... and thinking unwantedly, and hence we are wasting our precious energy. Please make yourself accept the fact that you have done an unintentional but really ignorant mistake.
Now if you are able to clear your brain from all those thoughts which are not required right now, then let's just spend some time to remember what your parents have taught you about the family, ethics, religion, good habit, respect, and education. Try to remember as much as possible, even the smallest thing which your parents have ever told to you.
I myself have a bad memory but fortunately all those words have stayed inside my heart, which helps me to recall them in the time of silence. I would strongly recommend you to write them (if possible), but don't start immediately. Give time to yourself; think about your childhood, your parents, your times of gaining education. Think again and again, after few days of practise you can now take pen and paper to write.
Being a human we might make a mistake in the first chance, or we might miss something out. So why not do the same steps once again and take few more blank papers to write down your memories again. Now we will have two separate sets with same memories in them, just have a proper look into them to find out any missed-out memories or events. You can take any set of those papers (A or B) and can start noting down those missed memories so that you can make one final master paper to refer.
This is that master draft which shall be referred with the very first paper I wanted you to write down. Now you are comparing those two papers in which you are living your present life and the other in which your childhood was carved. On another day listen to some soothing music so that you forget about your papers, give time to yourself and compare them again, on another day pamper yourself with good food to forget about your papers and then compare those papers again, on the last day.... spend some quality time with your family, and then compare those papers again.
Believe me that this is the time when not just your brain, but your heart will realize the fact we have lost too much of whatever was given to us. We need to ponder of the thought of: "What is left of it now......."