For the first time in my life when I heard of Alzheimers decease was in Valencia, Spain. I was entering subway when I saw this huge board with a lot of little notes. At the top go the board was written I dont want to forget... and under this statement there were a hundred of little notes with different wishes such as I dont want to forget ...my husband, the first day we met, my first kiss, my mothers eyes and, I think, the most powerful was I dont want to forget WHO I AM. After that I heard that the Alzheimer decease organization made that experiment - they were stopping different people on the street and were telling them Hey Mark, how are you doing? Why didnt you come to the party lsat night...etc and obviously the person who was randomly stopped answered them I am not Mark and I dont know you - the idea of the experiment was to show to a people whats the person diagnosed with Alzheimer decease eventually feels like. A week or so ago I ran on this book Still Alice and started to read. A story of Alice Howland - cognitive psychology professor diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimers decease, blew my mind. I read it if I were Alice myself or her husband or her kids. I swallowed this story and my heart is still trying to digest it. I am grateful for reading this book and getting to know better -what it feels like to forget. Today is almost Christmas. And I have an early resolution - I would like to remember everyone I love and I care for. I want to remember the best things that have happen to me and to people I love. I want to remember the day I became happy and the day I cried when I realized that I love and I am loved. I want to remember that life is beautiful. And the most important if Ill forget tomorrow does not mean that I did not live every second of it today. If I forget it today, that does not mean that today did not matter .
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 20:54:47 +0000
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