Things I have always loved.

These are the small things that i can recollect which give/have given me joy more than anything else.

- Sitting in the backseat of the school bus when it is speeding over a bump

- The smell of rain/wet mud.

- Off-Mondays.

- Finding money you dont even know you lost.

- Eating that last bite of the dessert.

- Sneezing 3-4 times in row.

- Sneaking into the college's swimming pool.

- Picking scabs.

- The feeling you get right after you vomit.

- Talking about how much a meal at home would cost at a restaurant.

- Walking barefoot on the beach.

- When you cut off your big toenail.

- Silence (deaf silence).

- When the socks from the drawyer match perfectly at home.

- Sleeping with only boxers.

- Getting away with incomplete things.

- New-socks day.

- The sound of the rain from inside the tent.

- Sneaking under someone-else's umbrella.

- Scaring away other dogs by throwing stones at them so that your dog can boss around at the street.

- That feeling inside ur stomach during a bungy jump.

- The final stages of untangling a really messy knot.

- Tuning the guitar perfectly.

I love these things. AMEN

Yes, I am absent-minded!

I woke up today being asked for the key to my bike. For a moment,I struggled to put my thoughts straight.After getting back to the frame realized I had no trace of where I had kept them “Last Night”. And NO, I wasn’t drunk and no pot was involved.  Still hastily I dismantled my locker and found them in my front pocket of the pants that I had put on yesterday. Later today, an hour later, I wanted my calculator in class. I checked my bag and they were not where they were supposed to be. However, this caught me with much less dismay as I had gone through a similar situation earlier today. Then I checked under the bench I sat yesterday, luckily it was still there.

Now this is not anything new on my daily routine. I tend to forget things often and then start tracing backwards. This “tracing backwards” tends to help me recollect my bits and peices of the ever-absent memory.

Sometimes, I enter a friend’s room and completely forget why I walked in. Unfortunately sometimes I am bound to think that my short-term memory isn’t so good. On the contrary I have been maintaining good GPA and am good at other things as well. But today, I reached that breaking point. I realised that believing that “my brain just thinks that there are other important things to remember than where i kept my key or whom i gave my book to” makes things worst.

To prevent this forgetfulness to take over my daily routine, I keep a memo on my phone. Most of the smartphones today give the “To-do-list” app and a memo along with it. That helps me keep things up to date. Another solution that proved effective for me is to keep certain fixed places for every item I use on a regular basis, for example the key always goes on top of the shelf, my pen drive always on the side pocket of the school bag etc.

However I feel this is not the right approach to this problem. The solution that will prove to be most effective over a long-term scenario is to “keep the mind alert at all times”. Everybody has seen a guy who doesn’t keep memos but still exactly knows even the smallest of the things he gave or did a week before. This is due to a routine they follow of keeping the mind alert at all times. They have an automatic log that runs on their head, that keeps track of even the smallest things they do. Recalling becomes very easy after that. This is not mere talent, it is simply routine. 

Another solution is to stop multitasking in the head. When I am doing simple things like copying a text from another notebook, I tend to think about other “which my brain thinks important” things and loose the alertness on what I am doing, being a small or a big task. I tend to lose my concentration on the smaller task eventually getting me side-tracked. 

Thus, I feel I need to develop a sort of mental check-list rather than depending upon my smartphone or any other physical means. I like to think this because all wise/smart men have done so and have convinced me enough that it was the right thing to do.

I'd be happy to receive any help relating to this.