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In her last years, my grandma used to place an egg to boil on the stove and I would find it an hour and a half later because I would get a whiff of something burning after all of the water had evaporated and the egg had turned to a crackled blackened clump. I don’t like boiled eggs but in forty-five years maybe I will have forgotten that. Someone I can’t remember once told me that taking different routes to walk back home from work decreases your likelihood of getting Alzheimer’s.
My ability to recall memories has never been good. Most of my defining expe-riences are only fragmented images, hazy colours, and recollected feelings that I jigsaw together to elicit a sympathetic “that’s interesting” at a dinner party. An attempt to reminisce turns into an embarrassing recitation of someone else’s story or a mid-sen-tence realization that I’m sharing the remnant memory of a dream I once had. I’ve always been frightened by that thing that people say: When you recall a memory you’re…
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In her last years, my grandma used to place an egg to boil on the stove and I would find it an hour and a half later because I would get a whiff of something burning after all of the water had evaporated and the egg had turned to a crackled blackened clump. I don’t like boiled eggs but in forty-five years maybe I will have forgotten that. Someone I can’t remember once told me that taking different routes to walk back home from work decreases your likelihood of getting Alzheimer’s.
My ability to recall memories has never been good. Most of my defining expe-riences are only fragmented images, hazy colours, and recollected feelings that I jigsaw together to elicit a sympathetic “that’s interesting” at a dinner party. An attempt to reminisce turns into an embarrassing recitation of someone else’s story or a mid-sen-tence realization that I’m sharing the remnant memory of a dream I once had. I’ve always been frightened by that thing that people say: When you recall a memory you’re…
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