You forgot. And you don’t even know you forgot.
This is becoming an obsession with me as I get older, because my friends are getting forgetful, I’ll mention a shared experience and they look blank. Then the puzzled look clears and they remember. Or music, or a smell, will suddenly bring back a memory that had lain in darkness for 20 years, as fresh as if it just happened, and it’s a slight shock to realize it had been awol.They say keep a diary and one day it will keep you. Maybe you need to get famous first, but I’m happy just to have a memory backup. I don’t keep a diary, but I write long emails to several people in my life, some of them on a daily basis. Every now and then I dip back into emails from 2 or even 10 years ago to see if the memory ganglions are still working. So far so good.
I’ve got worse / better / more boring, however you want to look at it, since the day I was looking at a shrub in my garden and couldn’t remember its name. They are common all over the world, I have known them all my life, and I couldn’t think of the name. Looked on the internet and up came the word hydrangea. Well, I thought, they must be known as something else as well because I have never heard that name before.
They aren’t. Yikes.
My emails are becoming detailed to the point of obsessive
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Hello Biff
I have a great memory.. for things of little consequences, apart from that I cant remember anything thats important.
Or, for that matter, blogged about it ...
So as long as they choose to keep me in their company, I'm sorted
And why is it that something is always in the last place you look?
OK I remember that one. Because you stop looking
Then you just need to remember to ask me.
And you already said your memory drops things. I'll need testimonials.
I had to laugh, when I saw that you couldn't remember the name for a Hydrangea. I have one in the garden and it is the one shrub, that I can never remember the name of.
Or, we could just be getting old!!
Did you ever read The Third Eye, by Lobsang T Rampa? (funny, remembered that without having to check)(probably got it wrong, though) - all I can remember about his monastic training was that he had to learn to file every memory tidily in its own memory drawer so he could find it immediately.
Would be nice, but then I can't even keep my own filing up to date ...
I'll have to work out the charge. Maybe we should just share memories. It might be easier.
Taxes. That was definitely on the list. And -
Anyone know where I put my list?
Sometimes I want to remember and Sometimes I don't.
Yep! You put it on the right side of the desk. Under an envelope!
On top of those papers, Hun!______
We all are growing older...some things are better to have been forgotten...
I Know! Right___
Hehee!______
Perhaps you're making more of this than it really is.
I'd suggest you just forget the whole thing.