AMNESIA HOW IT
BASHED ME
Today in the aggressiveness of the morning cold. I woke up
to a string of eerie thoughts. The thought of the proverbial partially amnesiac
lady. Who left her office at four o’clock in the evening? Rushed down the
stairs to the car park. While at the car park. She looked around, alas!, there
was no signs of her car. She quickly rummaged into her classy pink purse, if
she had her car keys in the first place. Trying to contain herself in the light
of the grand astonishment. She hastily rushed to the elevator back to her
office. She actually thought that her car keys were there on her desk.
She quickly entered office number five block two wing C.
Then there came the unexpected. There was no keys and the car was not in the
park. “What happened” she asked herself. She immediately called her hubby, “Honey
hurry up to my office , my car is stolen”. “Give me five minutes “, the husband
said. He did not say a word about the purported
car theft. “Honey am sorry, somebody stole my car woyeee! I don’t even know
what to do?”. “let’s go home!, he said.
While on the way her husband reminded her, that it was
actually him, who drove her to work that day and that she had left the car at
home.” Jeez! She slapped her head in disgust. The next day she leaves the car
at a park in town proceed by a friend’s car, while at the door of her house she
recalls that unfortunately she has forgotten the keys to her house in the car
somewhere in town. Damn she has to break the door lock.
The worse form of memory loss are the days you wake up in
the night and you do not remember the direction of the toilet, the wall or the
door. You end up hurting yourself on some object. I have always thought that
the sleep walkers are actually patients for this undesirable condition. The
other worse form of memory loss is when you completely forget what you were
supposed to do on a specific day, for instance forgetting that you were supposed
to go to work or school or that you were supposed to catch an early bus. Today
I woke up and forgot the keys to my office. I only realized this while at the
office door. Somehow everyone suffers memory loss. We all forget to do one
thing or another. We are taught math in school and we forget the formula. We
read and forget what we have read!. Isn’t that a form of amnesia?
There are those cases of memory loss that went viral. The
lady who forgot not only where her pants were after sex but also did not
remember to wear it. Then there is the village boy who forgot his pair of shorts
beside his poop and went back home only in his under wear. It happens daily. We
forget our phones over the shop counters. We forget our pants, soap and washing
nets in the public washrooms. We forget bags and umbrellas in the public
vehicles. We literally forget everything everywhere. My teacher forgot her
purse with fifty thousand Kenya shillings at the counter of an mpesa shop.
Interesting that we all suffer from this natural infirmity.
Though the memory of a computer diminishes proportionately with the rate of
information stored or relayed. God did not create the memory lapses we are all
going through but they are here probably due to lifestyle. God had created a
perfect being which implies that man had a well configured sufficient memory.
Even though the major cause of memory loss are stress, depression and anxiety.
There are other induced causes like head injury, bleeding, stroke- trauma in
general. Drug and substance abuse can also raise the levels of amnesia.
So amnesia will be here to stay if we continue to live a
disorganized life style, eat unhealthy and skip rest.
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