Taking Time To Remember
Recently my father passed away. He suffered from Alzheimer’s. He was a teacher. My dad taught just about every subject and coached almost every sport. Believe it or not, he even taught memory skills. It was horrific to watch this super highly intelligent man with an amazing memory, slowly lose it. It has made me really dig down deep and reflect on memory and remembering.
As we age, we all have the normal problems of forgetting things. We do the ‘where are my glasses, oh they are on my head’ thing. Then there is walking into a room and forgetting what we went in there for. We think to ourselves, ‘how dumb was that?’ Then there are those who have had injuries which cause memory loss and of course the dreaded Alzheimer’s. Those of us who can, try to step in and remember for them. Memory can be an awful thing if you lose it. But, it is also a wonderful awesome gift if you remember to use it while you can.
