Forgetful Lucy
This is the song Adam Sandler’s character in the movie, 50 First Dates composed for Lucy, the girl with short-term memory loss portrayed by Drew Barrimore. While I am not afflicted by that disease (I sure do hope not!), I really, really despise how I seem to just forget what I am thinking about the instant my attention is caught by something else.
I rush to a room only to forget what I went there for in the first place. I shout out in frustration when I couldn’t find an object I was just holding less than a minute ago. I could watch a movie and totally forget the plot. I could read a book or a magazine and not remember a single thing. In a conversation, even while I am intently listening and trying my best to focus, my mind just seems to fly and before I know it, I have already forgotten what the other person’s concern is–and I know this is just mighty frustrating for the one I’m conversing with each time I ask, “Sorry, ano nga ulit yun?” And I know it’s not easy, if not downright impossible, to accept my forgetfulness as an excuse. I always forget where I place my things, especially my cellphone—ah, thank God for ever-reliable Wendell who is always at the right place, at the right time, that my phone is always brought back safely in my hands. In two separate shoots, I thought I had lost my phone when I just left it somewhere in the bathroom (na-discover lang ng isang crew) and, in another shoot, on top of the stairs (Putek, pano napunta yun don!?)
I honestly fear that I would develop Alzheimer’s in a few years’ time.
Therefore, I’d like to record all the important things that have happened in my life just so I have a way to remember in case my memory just collapses and my mind is left blank.
A life without any memory of the past. Boy, that would be really terrible…
tama ka ano pa silbi ng buhay mo kung wala kang memory ng past…
may friend nga ako dito, may brain tumor sya, sabi ng doctor na 50-50 chance na after operation 10 yrs or more ang mawawala sa memory nya, sabi nya sa akin na its better to die na lang kesa naman di na nya makikilala yung anak nya na 5yrs old…. sa awa ng diyos tapos na yung operation and kilala pa rin nya lahat ng tao….
Alvin — December 11, 2006 @ 3:48 am
don’t worry che, i’m sure that’s a normal memory lapse thing. even i experience those =)
nonie — December 12, 2006 @ 3:01 am
one time tinago ko celfon mo diba? kase nakalapag sa table ng iba..hehehe..buti ako ang nakakuha..
- iAnnE - — December 12, 2006 @ 7:58 pm
Tama yan, keep a record of every important memory. Parang The Notebook. And that Japanese film we saw, To Be With You. It’s quite interesting how someone who lost memory will try to relearn and rediscover things of the past. Ako, if not for the senile things that an Alzheimer’s patient do (we have a church mate with Alzheimer’s, she went to our Sunday service with some packed lunch as if batang papasok sa school). Saka if only there’s assurance na if you be reminded of the past, you’ll be able to start memory anew…If not for that, I think it’s something to just forget everything and start with a clean slate. Feeling ko lang.
Norman Vincent — January 19, 2007 @ 2:58 am