people who have long-term memory can remember things for a long time. For example, a short term memory person is a person that can't remember things that just passed about 20-30 seconds ago. In the world, most people have normal-memories, short terms and long terms memories are very rare. In conclusion, long-term memory can make people remember things for a long time. Although, this might cause forgetting other things from past few years while remembering new memories. 大哥.我写的英文你都会念把.我这专业回答,还原创.中文你就自己去GOOGLE TRANSLATE 翻译吧.