I realized today, my memory is not quite the same as it used to be. I used to literally remember EVERYTHING thrown my way. Now, I see that the sponge is full. I need to either purge some old info or figure out how to start remembering new crap.
I woke up this morning (actually yesterday morning now) with such a great topic for a blog and I think I actually wrote it all out in my head...thinking I'll remember what it is later. Ya, no chance of that. I sat down to write tonight and after 20 minutes of looking at my screen decided it would be more fun to play a video game, or nap, or throw more things on the grill.
Needless to say, I still have no idea what it was. From now on, I'll write it down when I think of it so I don't end up hurting my brain later :)
Yeah memory is strange. What's truly weird is how science has revealed that people mutate their memory of events, such that what we remember about an encounter (what we swear to) has often been changed to the way we want to remember it.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how much of my life's memories are really untrue recollections altered to fit whatever I needed to get by at the time. It would be awesome to see a true replay of events beside a tape of how I currently remember it. That would be enlightening.