Remember, or Forget

On staying connected with the world outside, what’s going on, the experience of a member of Generation X, translated…

I’d wanted to write you back sooner, because I’d worried you may worry, but I’d felt scared at the same time, because, I’d begun to, not just you, and your friends close by.  You’d started, forgetting, me, too, that, on that, we’d, forgotten about what’d happened.

They all said, that when we get to a certain age, we’d slowly, lose the pieces in our memories, that, is what they all said.  The mode this followed was: everything that’s happened in the instant, we’d, wiped from our minds, and everything from before, everything, became, too clear.  So clear, we can, pick them up piece by piece, no need to recount, and we can, tell all those stories by heart.  We’re similar in a sense, perhaps, we’d both, taken that very, first step?  You said, so you’d become, very, careful, hoped, that you don’t make a fool of yourself, that if you couldn’t avoid it, at least, you can, delay the onset, or perhaps, be more elegant, and not let things, exacerbated to a point.

I’d often watched my friends with that cold glare, talked in gibberish, mismatching the names, and, as I’d bumped into them by chance, they’d told me, “What, am I here for?  What did I, come here, to get?”, it’s truly, shocking to me.

But now, I’d become, really careful too, as I met a neighbor I knew, I’d first, smiled, and think to myself: Mrs. Chen, that’s right, it’s, Chen.  And who’s that?  The one that dressed to the nines, someone I met up, several year back, not a neighbor!  So, how’d I met her?  Does she own a shop somewhere?  The six thing I needed to get done today, I’d keyed in on my laptop yesterday, what, were they?  The land offices?  The post office to get my mail?  To get documentation of the money left in my account?  Mmmmmmmmmmmm, still one item left, what, is it, huh?

Ahhhh, it’s getting on my nerves now, it will surely, make my blood pressures hike, if I think on it more.  What’s going on?  I’m brave in body, but mind’s fearing?  Funny?  Naturally not, it’s, quite scary actually.

I took fifteen minutes, started writing again, recalling how WebMD stated, “Forgetfulness isn’t synonymous with dementia”, stop wondering, write something that can distract myself now.

I’d gone on Youtube a lot to watch “I Was Made for Dancing”.

Remember Leif Garret?  That long blonde head of curls?  I’m watching the 1978 version, he’d hit fame with his hit, “Surfin’ USA” back in 1977, when he was just sixteen.  But, I’d watched the tribute to Leif Garret by the Korean pop male group, GOT 7.

There were seven members of GOT 7, two of whom only graduated out of high school back in 2016, they were only sixteen when they entered into the armed services, this group was known for their fast dance moves, their flips, they called themselves, “martial arts tricking”, the art of martial arts, similar to what the ninjas do, it’s very interesting to watch them.

I especially loved the member, Jackson Wang, he’s from Hong Kong, or rather, he’s from the current era, he wasn’t anything like we were when we were younger.  Watching Jackson Wang, watching GOT7, it’s the way for me, to be in touch, with the kids from the late nineties, into the new world.  My daughter laughed on how I watched them as though I was watching my own grandson, yes, sort of like fans watching a ball game, the runners, watching a marathon, I’d watched the generations of grandchildren, enjoying singing, and dancing too, it’d, made me happy.

This, is on how a member of the older generation attempted to catch up to what’s in, and she should be commended for her effort in so doing, because, a lot of the elderly in the previous generations would just, sit inside their houses, and stop socializing, at least, this woman is making an effort, getting involved with what’s happening in the world all around her.