I am suffering from immediate short term memory loss.  When something happens and you can’t recall what it was, or what you were thinking is it even considered memory?  It’s more like not being totally aware of what one is doing. That’s me right now, and I hope that it’s not permanent.  

I have also realized that I have lost the habit of jotting things down.  I used to have a fabulous memory, but I was also always jotting things down.  Maybe that is part of my disconnect. Either way, writing a list or just a few words in a small notebook that I could carry with me might help quite a bit.  I wonder how I lost that habit. I don’t even remember when it stopped being a habit.

Maybe “jotting it down” could become a part of my life again.  I could at least try to do it. It is really discouraging when I am telling a story to my granddaughter and I forget where I was going with it.  Jotting it down wouldn’t work in that situation though. Dang!

I used to be able to make a mental list of things to do while I was exercising and could hold up to 13 things in my head until I was finished and could write them down.  Now I have trouble remembering 2 to 3 things in my head at a time.

Perhaps jotting it down would be a beginning of a plan to improve even a tiny bit of my memory.  I’d like to think that it is possible to do this. I guess I won’t know until I give it a try.

Later~

I have been jotting a few things down now.  But I still forget to do it. Habits take time to form, though.  I think I will have to forgive myself for that. It’s going to be difficult to remember to do it, until it just seems like a natural, normal thing for me to do.  I’m getting older and I don’t have time to waste if it’s going to do me any good. I thank you for reading this far as it might be boring for those of you who don’t have this problem.  Wish me luck! I’m going to need it!