Forgetfulness affects everyone – and it’s good to remember that

A Different View with Dave O’Connell

Be honest – who hasn’t done it? Spent ten minutes looking for the reading glasses that were on the top of your head; suffered a panic attack over the lost car keys which you left in the front door; missed an entire television programme looking for the remote control you’d accidently thrown into the bin.

Haven’t we all had to ask another member of the household to ring your mobile phone so you can find it – and inevitably it’s under the cushion you were sitting on in the first place?

Remember when we used to walk untethered down Shop Street and you’d bump into someone you’ve known all your life – but if you were there until next Tuesday, their name just wouldn’t come to you?

Did you ever park your car in a multi-storey car park – and twenty minutes later, you can’t even remember what floor you left it on, let alone where it’s actually located?

Haven’t you walked purposefully into a shop or another room and then stopped to wonder why you were there and what you had intended to do?

How often have you sat down to watch a movie, only to realise halfway through that you might have actually seen this before? On the other hand, the fact you don’t remember it in any great detail only adds to your enjoyment at being able to watch it, as though for the first time, all over again.

And who hasn’t completely forgot to collect the kids from school?

The narrative is that this forgetfulness gets worse as you get older, inexorably meandering its way to dementia. And every time that something slips your mind, you fear you’ve taken another step down that terrible path.

Turns out it’s not inevitable at all, because scientists have established that young people – without a semblance of senility on the horizon – can struggle to remember things just as much as the more senior among us.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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