Sunday 14 August 2011

My Brain is Full. Can I Buy Some More Memory?

If only.

I look at the 3 terabyte hdd sitting there mostly empty and unused, and think about how useful it would be if my brain had memory expansion capability.  I am not saying my memory is bad.. In fact, when I need to remember something like a phone number, account number, or where I stored the bike polish I swore I'd use every week, I usually can.  But it could be better!

I am still young and enthusiastic about life and learning.  Often times I will read some great information and file it away for later, in some distant quadrant of my mind.  I know I will retain that information for quite some time, just in case I need it.  In other instances I read something, try to convince myself that I should remember it, and then struggle to hold onto it like trying to hold onto room temperature jell-o.

Even more frustrating are the times when I know something and instead of doing what that knowledge should inspire me to do, I act the opposite.  A classic example:  I know I should exercise today but I am not going to because I am not feeling up to it.  Of course I am aware that once I went to do that exercise I would feel amazing and so on and so forth, yet I cannot seem to bring myself to do it!  Oh, how I hate fighting with myself.

Then there are the times when I really wish I had a scrolling reminder system glued to the back of my eyelids. It would read:  Wake up happy.  Think positive.  Feed fish.  Do something for yourself.  Be happy at work.  Tell partner how much he means to you.  Don't forget to go shopping.  Don't forget shopping list.  Exercise.  Stand up straight.  Be humble.  Think before you speak or act.  Respect your elders.  Tell everyone how much they mean to you.  Appreciate everything that anyone does for you, really appreciate it.  Don't judge.  Floss. Did you exercise yet?  Etc. Etc. Etc.  How am I supposed to remember everything all at once!!

So maybe I just need more RAM.  More juice to process everything I need to process all at once.  Through years of experience, learning, and shaping I have acquired so many tips for living life to the fullest that I feel I cannot possibly entertain them all at once, however much I wish I could.  If anyone has found the solution to this, I insist you share.  Or else.



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