The memory you revisit most may be the one you have handled most, not preserved best.

Frequent recall does not preserve a memory, it revises it. Each retrieval edits slightly, adds the version you told last time, and firms up the details you have repeated, so the most familiar memories tend to be the most reworked. The ones you rarely touch may be closer to what happened and feel far less certain.

Hold your most-told stories with a little more suspicion than your vague ones. Where it matters, check with someone else who was there or with something written at the time. The confidence you feel is a measure of handling, not accuracy.