Benefit Of Forgetting.

[DKpiper]

It's a real pleasure - I always meet new people

 

[jguss]

It's not all bad. I can watch my favorite movies and read my favorite books over and over again with the pleasure of not knowing how they're going to turn out.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Since retirement l have trouble remembering what day of the week it is. Date? Forget about it.

Working a seven day twelve hour shift has a similar effect.

 

[PipeIT]

It's a real pleasure - I always meet new people

I can’t begin to tell you, how many people have waved at me, or shook my hand, called me by my first name, and I’m like, hi, and ok to myself, who is this... LOL

I’ve had to ask the wife so many times, who are these people, bloody damm scary I forget them. LOL

 

[sigaholic]

They continue to be more frequent…..Scary

 

[Honkytonk Man]

It's absolutely crazy this loss of short-term memory we have. Just before I retired, I was in my office and to decide to go where we kept the engineering drawings. Next thing I knew I had walked into the factory are of the building. I realized what I had done so I turned around to go back to the drawing room and ended back in my office. I guess I needed the exercise, but I would have liked to have seen that drawing.

So, I'm downstairs doing something important, like preparing for a smoke, or similar. Realized that I've left something upstairs. Fair enough, I've only got one pair of hands.
Re-trace my footsteps, back upstairs into the bedroom, only to think, "what the hell did I come here for?" Man that sucks!

 

[Honkytonk Man]

I'm to be 55 this summer. Maybe younger than some here, older than a few others. I have two boys: 5 and 3 years old, just about. I'm a kind of high-strung, anxious person and maybe that contributes to my state of being more and more forgetful. My wife is always asking me these important questions, the answers to which I can't remember: "Did you give them the cough medicine?" And two minutes later: "I asked you a question!" "Um, I'm trying to remember." Is it normal to start forgetting things at this age? I feel like it just got me the last few years. I ask people questions at work, forgetting that I asked them the same questions just a few minutes before.

@milk .
I'm going to be 55 in August and also experience, maybe to a lesser degree, what you're experiencing.

My wife says she's told me something, to which I reply, "no honey, you never mentioned this or that" I guess that it doesn't help that she's as dizzy as top.

But it is something a buddy of mine is pulling me up on.