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I'd rather not dwe ll on that point, but to address the state of the
individual when he retires to rest po ndering the worrisome
thoughts he or she have heard reporte d. Or, for exa mple, how does
the individual treat the thought patterns bouncing back and fort h
in his or her brain while getting dressed, making their breakfast or
lunch, setting out to arrive at the destination where their daily
activities are scheduled to take place. For instance, an old man
who lives alone, when out of the middle of nowhere, the phone
line goes dead and there's no connection to the WEB. Days go by
and the person remains detached form contact with the world
beyond the cha mbers of one's daily patterns of existence. What,
me worry?
This old man, with a nick knack wonder when his phone line
will be reconnected, and what the people trying to call will think .
Will those to who m I reply with emails despise me for not
answering; maybe draw the false conclusion that I'm dead and
gone. I'm in so many places , doing many different things at once
that I forge t what I'm talking about and that's especially true of
discourse that has no meaning ful purpose. My me mory seems to
have weakened so I've had to develop a routine; meticulously
connote the things I need to on scraps of paper ; which if not
discarded may be unnecessarily repeated. I must employ as a
syste m, symbols of occurrence; tape notices to my co mputer
monitor, to the refrigerator, doorpost, simple notations so that the
me mory channels are readily initiated.
A process of reconsidering every possibility o f where I might
have misplaced something and want to recall where I put it. It
could be here, but isn't - there, but also not. Never a leaf unturned,
until I recall the last place I might have set it to rest. Prior to
departure fro m my secure dwelling conc octing lists such that I not
return have failed to do something because I forgot about it. I
prepare the mentative list of communicative tasks that I'll
endeavor to share with someone, a particular message that I want
not to forget to tell the m. I wouldn't be surprised if that's what
turns the elderly into nudniks; calling their children up every
minute of the day or night any time something co mes to mind.
Complaining that they're neglected because they can't even
reme mber if they talked to the individual i n question.
Fiscal turmoil results in trauma, sorting out threats that prevail
if I forget to pay a bill on time , charged fees for lack of adherence
to banking cautionary procedure , or forgetting userna me and code
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