Grieving and confused

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And I thought it was just me…

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Nah, it’s just taken a while for me to realise that I have quite a few peers here, in age and other things.

See, my self image is not that of an old man. More like my mid 20’s when I was a slyph, and in my prime. When it comes to mirrors, I have acute cognitive dissonance.

PS I know Cog is only 65, but he has some of the opinions of a much older man. And Mr M is what, 79? :innocent:

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Reading these two is like listening to this: What Time Is It, Eccles? - TeachRock

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I just turned 62 a couple of months ago.
Statler and Waldorf are pretty funny though.

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Really? I would have thought mid 70’s at least :innocent:

Today’s dietary hint: " Never eat more than you can lift " (Miss Piggy)

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Really, I’m not that far gone yet, I think. Some days I’m not so sure.

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Yair I understand I think, although I was taking the Michael. .

As one gets older those days become more frequent.

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What days? I forget…

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I read somewhere that when young, your short term memory is excellent, but long term memory is lacking.

Just try that out on a ten year old. They can recount in fine detail the day they just had, but have trouble recalling what they did a month ago.

And for us old farts, the situation is reversed. I can recall in great detail a party I enjoyed many years ago, but I seem to have lost my glasses. :wink:

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Yep

I can recall great times I had say in Hong Kong in 1984, or what I had for lunch one day in London in 1985, but often forget why I’ve gone into a room. It soon comes to me.

The worst is writing a complete shopping list and then leaving the fucking list at home.

But, although I may sometimes forget exactly where I’ve parked the car, so far I still remember that I have a car.

–and looking everywhere for a shirt only to discover I’m wearing it. First time I did that I was 8. :blush:

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My memory comes and goes as I walk through doorways.

I’ll enter the kitchen, and forget why I went in. Go back out, and then remember.

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I’ve always had an uncanny memory for faces, that given a moment can place them in the context I’ve seen them before. I mean even on one brief viewing in say a film or on tv, and after a gap of many years. Similarly with film dialogue, which I can capture almost verbatim after a single viewing.

Frustratingly my memory for names is a lot less impressive. And as I’m getting older I have to endure the really annoying fact that names of famous people suddenly escape me, it’s almost like a bout of amnesia, and though sometimes I can torture my memory to tease out the name, more and more I have to resort to internet searches.

I try to use my memory as much as I can, memorizing new things each day. As I understand it helps preserve this kind of mental acuity. Ultimately though the end results are an inevitable slow decline. I try not to dwell on it…

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Interesting. I have the same thing. I can recognize a face easily - and place it. Names??!!! Forget it. I’m horrible at names.

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I am terrible at names…real names. I cant remember my actor friends names but frequently can recall their characters names in a play or film, and address them as such for ever. Same as someone I have known, a director, who still addresses me as “Pip” after a character I played when we first met in the first half of the 20th Century CE. . It is common in the industry. Shit, some days I have difficulty figuring out who I am…

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Awww … were you Pip?

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Yair, so are most Aussies.

Why do you think we call everyone “mate”?

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As in David Coperfield?

Yep once as a kid on stage, as a young man on film, and as an adaptation featuring “Pip” as a an older feller after all his adventures, stage job, then film. Pip kinda followed me around!

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First and last time I appeared on stage was in rehearsal as part of a choir, 1959. I fainted and that was the end of that. :blush:

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I have a bizarrely hard time recognizing faces, and mask aren’t helping the matter. I think all people basically look the same, two eyes a nose and a mouth. I met a new resident in the hallway, then later in the day introduced myself again. He’d changed clothes, so that was no help. I do finally recognize people, but one brief meeting is rarely enough, unless they have some really odd feature. So if I meet you for a few minutes then recognize you again, it’s because I think you look funny :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:.

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