I have come to the conclusion that I have a pretty bad memory. (Or a selective memory...sort of like the selective hearing I've been also accused of having. I always hear that ice cream is being served but don't always hear that it's time to vacuum. No...really....I didn't hear that vacuum thing.....)
There are some things I remember pretty clearly though. Like the time I was wrestling with my brother and I smashed his forehead into a door hinge. Oh yeah...I think I was about 6 or 7 years old (although it easily could have happened yesterday). That's not easy to forget because my brother has a door hinge-shaped scar on his forehead to this day. There's also the time when I had a pretty adverse reaction to my mother bringing my brother home from the hospital. I famously (in my family) punched him in the face. It was my welcome home present to my baby brother. I was 3 1/2...so sue me. (It's actually a wonder that my brother survived our childhood.) My brother, on the other hand, got his revenge. My mother was trying to get me involved with him and she was showing me how to change his diaper. Well....as anyone who's had a baby boy knows....that's prime time for peeing and...yes...he got me in the face. I d on't think I have to tell you that that incident set back my mother's plan. I'm still trying to figure out why they even had him...
Maybe I can only remember violent things clearly. In that case you'd think that I would remember everything from my years at West Point. But no.... At my 20th reunion there were tons of people that I didn't know at all. They had their cadet pictures on their chest and everything. One guy even told me that we would meet and have donuts and coffee together at the firstie club almost every morning but that still didn't ring a bell. I probably didn't remember that because it didn't involve blood or anything super disgusting. It makes me wonder about all of the mundane things I'm doing today that I will forget in a few years. I don't think I'll forget Mack (violence is involved) but I'll probably forget all of the nice people that take the class with me.
I think I need help or maybe I need to do a lot more violent things....
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