what was i just about to do?

i was thinking of telling you guys something, but i cannot for the life of me think what i wanted to tell you :spin. it is so annoying. now i will not get any peace till such time as i remember :confused2:.

what is happening here? this seems to be happening to me more and more frequently, (much to the delight of my mom who has been suffering from a fairly rapidly failing memory due to old age. she says, "see, you are already worse off than me and then you tell me i don't remember". good for her i say . if it makes her happy, it makes me happy too). okay, so where was i? hmm....., yes, i was telling you what a pain my memory has become of late.

when exactly did this start? the mildest symptoms i noticed was during my school days. mom used to come to drop me off at the bus stop. about 5 minutes before the bus arrived, i used to remember, "oh, i've forgotten, my calendar at home, i have forgotten my pencil box at home ....." . mom would give me an exasperated look :roll:. i would then run home, pick up the missing item and come back just in time to catch the bus, all huffing and puffing and out of breath. but i was not always that lucky - occasionally a text book would be forgotten at home nonetheless or homework would be left undone. you can take a guess at what the teacher would ask me - no prizes for guessing - it would be "do you ever forget to bring your lunchbox"? imagine my amusement and relief when i finally did that too, and thought, that it would be ironical if my teacher were to ask me that question today.

years went by. my forgetful remained with me. lost keys, forgotten slippers (i used to wear my dad's slippers when running off to my neighbour's house and then - yes, promptly forget them there and return barefoot - it would be only next day, when my dad would be desperately looking for his slippers, that the finger of suspicion would finally be pointed in my direction. i would be totally clueless, until i was sent to check up in my neighbour's house, where lo and behold! my dad's missing slippers would be there, neatly left at the doorstep :hide.

my forgetfulness got me into many a scrape during my college days and working days. i still get frequent nightmares where i have an exam and have forgotten to open my books and study for them! during my working years, it was not infrequently that i was pulled up by my boss for forgetting to do something stupid, exasperating me. i found it increasingly difficult to live with myself.

it was really too much when i once went to work on my scooter, came back home and as i was getting out of the auto, i tried desperately to remember how much i paid for the auto that morning. :help. i could not for the life of me remember. it was about 5 minutes before i remembered that i had gone on scooter that morning and forgotten it at work :crazy

now i am getting on in life. in more ways than one. my forgetfulness is playing a game of one upmanship with my age. not infrequently, i pick up my landline to call my husband and land up calling my own mobile no. or try to call someone from my mobile phone and end up dialling my own landline! not uncommon is for me to pick up the phone and dial the number and horror of horrors, when the other person picks up the phone, i have already forgotten whom it was i had called. the short gap between the person's "hi/hello" and my surprised, "hi" without reference to a name invariably betrays me. so i don't call people so often these days. which leaves me short of jobs to do. so i try crossword puzzles :coffee - what is the other word for "confident"? the clue is 4-7 starting with "s" and the letter "a" features somewhere in between. oh dear, i have the word at the tip of my tongue, but it just won't come. now i won't get sleep ti!l i remember the word :rant. oh, never mind. if you know the word, let me know. now you know why mom feels i am worse off then her?

 

thanks mithy.

 

hullo vijima, it is only now that you have started doing such things. it was funny, you mentioned about boiled milk and geyser - forgetting geyser, not to mention even gas sometimes is routine for me to forget:hide:. and yesterday, just after i had just after starting this thread, i went to make dosas. i vatified the dosa on the tava and wondered why the holes were not popping in them. i left it and came to the dining table for something, when i noticed i had not lit the gas! vijima, i despair to think what i will be doing or not doing in another 10 years :spin.

i guess, i frequently send my brain on free of cost world trips. when i blank out my mind, so as not to think of anything, this is what happens.

 

dear prana,

i am glad you enjoyed this snippet. thanks.

 

hi nimmi,

it came back to me sometime at 1 am last night. i run the risk of forgetting it again if i don't write it down somewhere (that is if i still remember it).:rotfl