Everybody forgets. It is normal.
The difference is the degree of the forgetting..
I have some hazy memories of events in my life.. Age may have done that to me. But sometimes the sad part is when it's a total loss of everything. Memory loss?
Recently I've started forgetting people's names.. err, these are people who I don't talk to on a daily basis, but see everyday.. ooops.. Then there's people on facebook who we sometimes forget we're friends with. Among the 600++ friends I have, I can barely recall half of them if you ask me to say their names.. (and i have also begun to wonder why I'm friends with them...sorry..)
A friend once told me I have `selected amnesia' which means I choose what I want to remember and forget.. Hmm.. maybe.. But deep in the recesses of our mind, we sometimes do remember.. It's just what we decide to do with that memory that differs.. Either we brush it off as if it were unimportant, or we pause and take time to think about it and to remember it.
Then there are things we don't ever want to forget. A feeling. A face. A laugh, smile, touch or taste. A moment in time.
But as time passes by, what remains with us may be just bits and pieces. Fragments of a memory.
I write this today to remind myself of what I will forget. To start cherishing people and things around me before they fade from my memory..
The difference is the degree of the forgetting..
I have some hazy memories of events in my life.. Age may have done that to me. But sometimes the sad part is when it's a total loss of everything. Memory loss?
Recently I've started forgetting people's names.. err, these are people who I don't talk to on a daily basis, but see everyday.. ooops.. Then there's people on facebook who we sometimes forget we're friends with. Among the 600++ friends I have, I can barely recall half of them if you ask me to say their names.. (and i have also begun to wonder why I'm friends with them...sorry..)
A friend once told me I have `selected amnesia' which means I choose what I want to remember and forget.. Hmm.. maybe.. But deep in the recesses of our mind, we sometimes do remember.. It's just what we decide to do with that memory that differs.. Either we brush it off as if it were unimportant, or we pause and take time to think about it and to remember it.
Then there are things we don't ever want to forget. A feeling. A face. A laugh, smile, touch or taste. A moment in time.
But as time passes by, what remains with us may be just bits and pieces. Fragments of a memory.
I write this today to remind myself of what I will forget. To start cherishing people and things around me before they fade from my memory..
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