I am learning more about me every day
Lately I have realized I know nothing.
Seriously. Nothing.
I have been reminded lately of a couple of things that happened right after or around high school.
Big things.
Major things.
I don't remember them. At all. Even when given prompts, I have no recollection of a wedding, or military service, or child's birth, or band.
It's like the current me did not exist back then. I was there, but I did not exist.
Sure, it was 50 years ago or so, but I remember events, like prom, homecoming, graduation.... well, now that I think of it, I don't remember graduation. I remember practicing for it. A girl I went to school with four four years actually asked what my name was, and then she asked if I thought she had a hickey on her neck. I remember going to school the day after graduation and just standing there, looking at the building and wondering what I should do now.
I know the human brain can only contain x number of pieces of information, be it names, memories, songs, whatever. By my x number seems to be low. Very low. Lower than my T level.
But I also wonder, was I just a jerk? Wasn't I paying attention to what was going on in the lives of people around me?
Am I still that way? And if I am, why hasn't someone told me?
And even scarier.....what else have I forgotten or missed?
Sometimes the past is just a blur. And the future isn't very clear either.
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