Five Seconds Alzheimer
by Have you ever been in a situation where your mother repeatedly ask you the same question that you had answered few minutes ago?
Trust me, every child has gone through that same situation. Annoying it may seem to some people, even their own family could not stand such behaviour. But it isn’t their fault that they had to go through a five seconds Alzheimer series.
Our brain works in mysterious ways, most of it has already been discovered by doctors and scientist. But what about the part that stores our short term memory? What actually happens to our brain when we are so busy finding the car keys when they are already in our hands? What happen to us when at one minute we took the money and next minute we forgot where we put it? Even if it just a few seconds to a minute, we could even forget things, lost part of a minute life memories.
When we were young, we could almost remember everything, from the point where our favorite sweets are place from us to the point where we could remember the face and voices of those people that make us cry. You may think “If that is so, then why did I not get full scores in exams?” Well, that is not how it works. Knowledge maybe stores in the brain, just now are we going to use that knowledge.
Our brain acts like a big computer, that controls the whole part of our body, what we do, what we say, how we think. Just that we need to find those folders that contains documents of knowledge and facts and use them appropriately.
Our brain, consist of 2 parts memory system, the long term and the short term memory. The parts of long term consists of 2 parts which is the declarative (knowing that) and the reflexive/procedural (knowing how). The declarative, is about things that we know, things we understand such as myths and legends, rumours, things that we are consciously doing. While the reflexive or the procedural, applies for the skills that we possess, or skills that we keep practicing till it become part of us, which make us do things unconsciously.
The other part of the memory systems the short term, also known as the working memory. It stores the last post that we read, or for some, the memory of a day, of what we heard, what we seen that will soon be forgotten before the day even end.
In this life, there are alot of things that we want to have controls over. But we don’t have that kind of power. A doctor may operate in a person so that he could live another day, but he do not have any power to control complication from happening.
It is not our fault that we forgets all the time. It is not our doing that we cant stop time or stop us from ageing. We forget, it is part of us that we have no control over. At times we forget about the things we want to remember but remembers when we want to forget.
So, give people a chance, don’t just scolded them like they want to forget things. Everyone of us have a five seconds Alzheimer, some has even more than a day. So, make peace with that 5 seconds and move on.
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