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Oh Curlymoe115 that is so frustrating I know – I guess frustrating isn’t really the right word but I do sympathize! I know exactly what you mean. It’s so weird, it seems like there’s a memory gap of some kind. Like a tape where a portion has been spliced out.
Bad enough when this happens with pretty ordinary day to day stuff but when it happens with the big stuff it’s just so dramatic. I think we’re so used to operating this way on a small scale everyday we probably don’t even notice.
I really am an out of sight out of mind person and I know that’s partly why I lose stuff, but seriously there’s got to be more to this than that? Do we hurry too much,is it because our brains move at warp speed they don’t soak up the stuff we need for short term retention?
This morning I was looking for something and went to the same wrong place twice and actually repeated the exact same pattern of steps. After the 2nd attempt looking for the thing I caught myself. I actually knew where the thing was – a purse – but went to the wrong one which looks similar 2x. Like duuhhh….
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