One of the most difficult things, as far as the writer of this article is concerned, in keeping things to memory is remembering names. Very often one is put to a gruesome experience of recognising an individual and remembering the person's name. As a teacher, I have been subject to such grill as and when i come across an erstwhile student who appears all of a sudden and challenges to get him/her identified. With much struggle i am able to recognise the individual and associate him or her with the discipline of their study. Even then i am still at bay in delivering their names. Some of the students even try to put me to test and with much gauche i utter a part of their name rightly guessed.
It is not completely the incapacity of the brain in retrieving the information that causes such loss of functioning. It is very often because of the changes to one's physique that the brain falters at comparing the stored picture with the one that is now at present in front of it. Some boys and girls put on much weight after leaving the institution even in a short period of time and those who get themselves married off by their parents undergo a complete transformation, probably due to the uncanny blessing of getting married, physical as well as mental.
Being a teacher of literature, i find myself at bay in mathematics. A person good at mathematics is able to remember the names of people vouches many a research. As compensation to the people who have penchant for humanities, the brains of them are gifted with remembering the facial index of people. Although the face is essential for identification to both those who master at mathematics, logic and who are good at humanities, the former are able to connect the face with the code of name whereas the latter only are taken to the mental image of the same index got registered on their brain.
hehehe wait till you cross forty!then you will read this blog and say Gosh these days I remember nothing,Then we will laugh together
ReplyDeleteLife is a constant struggle between memory and forgetting - Milan Kundera
ReplyDeleteForgetting is such a good thing for the brains. So its kool. Moreover, you cannot jump into the same river twice.. Everyone changes not just physically but psychologically as well. And we also keep changing. Though we would like to keep the same name to remind ourselves that we are the same!
And try to experiment with some relationships by not having any names. As in Bernardo Betolucci's Last Tango In Paris. That would be a tantalising journey of self-discovery..