You have probably said it or thought it several times a day, that is, if you are over the age of fifty. As soon as the words exit your mouth you regret saying them. Those words are, "I forgot or I don't remember" or something that means the same. Intuitively you know those are words of a senior citizen or an old codger or someone "over the hill." You are "marked" no matter the words which come after that. So, do you accept it or not?
I have made a New Year's resolution to help me with this memory problem. We have in our blended family twelve grandchildren and twelve great grand children. That is a group any way you look at it. Just keeping up with their birthdays is no small feat I will admit I do forget or get them mixed up at times. Their parents are too young to understand. Give them a few more years and they will think, "Oh, I shouldn't have been so critical of the seniors. My reasoning is that we have crammed too much in our brains over the years. All we can retrieve is that stuff in the very back that happened many years ago!
Oh, I forget to tell you my solution to the birthday cards! I bought one for everyone, wrote their name where the stamp goes and put them in the appropriate pocket of the correct month on the calendar.
Don't let it get to you. Sometimes it is good to forget some things.
It will help your brain to free up some memory by writing your memoir. That will clean out some of that stuff way in the back!
Comments are encouraged. Darlene Eichler/Nan Turner
dargeeic@aol.com
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