New Yorker has an article on memory, partially geared to the idea that forgetting is part of having a healthy memory.
I think I have had a good memory, certainly one for facts, because I like to be the "know-it-all". There's discussion in the article of people who remember lots of events in their lives (supposedly the average person can list only 10 events per year). If I dug and worked at it, I could perhaps get up to the 10 per year for my early years. Many of my memories are detached from years, and have sort of melted into an amorphous mess.
For example, I remember one year of lots of snow, people who lived on some of the back roads were cut off for days. I think it was the first year, maybe the only year, when snowplows used snow blowers as well because they simply could shove the snow far enough off the back roads with high banks. But I've no idea of when that was.
Recently my memory is getting faulty--perhaps just old age. I'm starting to rely on Google Assistant to prompt me on things. Now the question: will I forget how to use Google assistant?
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