Wow, it’s been such a strange couple of weeks! I just started the new school year completely online, and it’s been quite an adjustment. It feels like an awkward stage, between summer and school, because online school just doesn’t feel real. It was also like there was never closure to the previous school year because we ended online. Going through my blog, I know many of my recent posts have been about COVID-19, which I do believe is an important topic to explore, especially with respect to the elderly. However, further past these posts, I came across one about the different types of memories, and this sparked me to search for the opposite: the different types of memory loss.
Amnesia: “a partial or total loss of memory” (please note that this is different from causes of memory loss, which include dementia and Alzheimer’s disease)
Most of the time, amnesia is temporary. However, it is definitely a daunting concept to face. Clive Wearing, as mentioned in Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks, never ceases to inspire me. He’s a musician who, after a brain infection, suffered from devastating anterograde and retrograde amnesia. His memory span is only a few seconds, so he is constantly in a state of confusion about where he is, who he is, and what he’s doing. Every time I come across his story I am both amazed and haunted at the same time because I could never imagine how to live when every moment is like a new moment because I’ve forgotten that a few seconds ago even existed.
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