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alfreda89 ([personal profile] alfreda89) wrote2010-10-10 04:16 pm
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Habits are a curse, and time is an arc....

Thought for the day.

I feel this a lot right now -- things that should be child's play for me are hard, and other things, well, it's as if I've been dropped into a culture with a language I don't speak. Everything is tantalizingly close to what I know, but I have to pay attention to nuance as much as I can.

So I am learning new things every day. And if I have enough energy, it keeps me young.
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[identity profile] tylik.livejournal.com 2010-10-10 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Though I think this has a lot more to do with Neuroscience than the author suggests.

(Also, a lot of the assertions about memory, while more or less true for most people, are pretty incomplete for me. While, as a colleague reminds me, I too undoubtedly retain an abstraction of the events as they occurred rather than raw data per se, if I am in reasonable health I will usually remember the specific words. While this is perhaps a little unusual, there's a lot of variation among humans, generally.)

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2010-10-10 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Definitely a wide span here -- one of my oldest friends has the disconcerting ability to repeat conversations verbatim years after they take place. I don't know if it is only conversations he recognizes at the time are important, or all conversations stick to him like that, but he does it.

[identity profile] originalkitsune.livejournal.com 2010-10-11 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
Lots to be said for keeping on learning. *2 thumbs up*

Much better than the alternative, when taken in perspective!

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2010-10-11 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
I understand through the mysterious Internet that it's your birthday?

Hippo Birdie Two Ewes! And Meerkat more!

Re: Much better than the alternative, when taken in perspective!

[identity profile] originalkitsune.livejournal.com 2010-10-11 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you! Is that Merlin aka Mr. Chocolate in the icon? awesome.

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[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2010-10-11 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
That was the beautiful Max, his older brother, whom I lost the end of February. He was 18 when he went ahead, and had lived a long and mostly good life. This picture is the two of them waiting for a certain client to arrive. Merlyn was my massage therapy cat -- he felt it was his duty to greet everyone! (Since the very heavy client almost fell on him, he's been a little shyer about coming out to see people. "It was an earthquake, Mom!" he keeps telling me.)
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