Its not so bad. Just continue to be your best and continue to improve. Be nice. Be generous, kind, caring, charitable. Go out of your way sometimes to be good to people.

Ive had a few concussions, been knocked out a few times, and 1 traumatic brain injury. (Accident prone). I know im forgetting a bunch, but I cant remember what im forgetting, so it doesn’t really affect me generally.

Ive had a fairly eventful life, at times exciting life. Ive been around the world. Done missionary work in Mexico and Peru, helping an orphanage building a well, visiting a youth jail in Mexico. Sailed thd Amazon river bringing medicine/water/supplies/bibles to different villages on the Amazon river. Er…

Thats all to say, if youre a good person and do good things, people will remember and can remind you again later if you forget!

Its dangerous to live shitty acting shitty treating people like shit AND have a bad memory. If you forget who you were shitty to and not watching your back thats trouble. Better to just be remembered as a good guy.

Only one way to save them. Write a diary or a mini biography. Just pick some stories you like and write them down and they become permanent.

Memories fade.

Take tons of pictures and videos now. Make sure you have storage and backups.

When I was younger I didn’t like taking pictures.

When I got older and had kids I didn’t want to spend all my times taking pictures. We were “building memories” was my excuse.

Now all I have are memories, but those will disappear when I cease to exist. I don’t like that one bit.

You can get genetic testing for Alzheimers done; I lived with the Fear for many years until I got the testing done and found I didn’t have the gene… such a relief. I’m still a forgetful fuck though

Honestly, going through and getting therapy and doing the work nowadays, I’m more afraid of the ones I’ll find than the ones I’ll eventually lose.

yes and no.

I remember everything. well, I guess it’s better to say I remembered everything.

until 2020 I remembered everything and had a near 95% recall. after I got covid and stress/anxiety ate away at my sanity it’s more like 80% now. My age is also a factor.

remembering everything, every detail, did me more harm than good honestly. all the embarrassing moments in my life from my first class recital in kindergarten where I fucked up my lines to the time a hooked up with a “dead fish”.

I’m on the other side of my life now and most the crap I remember isn’t worth it.

there are some good memories I’d like to keep, but when I do finally forget them (and I will forget them), I won’t even know I forgot anything at all.

Sounds quite simple - if you are healthy, nothing to do. If you fear losing memories - write them down. Like, a diary or journal, but you now write down what happened in the past, how you saw it, how you experience it. That way you have memories written down. You can also over time re-read them and update and double check do you still remember them the same way you used to, or do your memories get “watered down” over time.

I’m 51 and I have an astonishingly complete long term memory, I can remember parts of being 2 years old, and pretty much everything from age 4 onward. I mean not every single day in kindergarten or anything like that, but I have a pretty good grasp on what my daily life was like most of the time. I kept a friends only online blog for years, and when I’ve reread it, there’s only bits and pieces I don’t immediately remember, nothing significant, but when I read it I have good recall of what happened, it’s just not immediately on the surface of my mind.

My short term memory is sometimes iffy, it’s largely due to stress though from my violent ex, but it improves when I am feeling safer.

I think this is because I read so much.

Write down your favorite ones, take pictures and get them PRINTED videos future you will thank you

if I get a concussion and forgot everything, I wouldn’t really be… well… “me” anymore

I get what you mean by this. It’s been my theory for a while that your memories are “you”, so it’s no longer “you” if you lose even half of your memories. You’re an entirely different person. Everything that we are, are contained in these memories. If you cloned a person then automatically, they will be a different person from the start. Simply because the memories they make will be different and are no longer identical. It’s why I think if someone loses their memories through diseases like Alzheimer’s or dementia, it’s no longer “them”.

Hell, every time you go to sleep, you will wake up an entirely different person. Ship of Theseus style. Your memories and even the cells in your body are slowly being replaced by new ones. So… in a way, every single second of our life, we are no longer the “me” that we were and we are now someone else.

Memories are not permanent, it’s not their nature.

I take it from your username you are fan of Steins;Gate. I feel somehow the thought of “fear of lose of all the merry times” quite fitting the aesthetics of Stiens;Gate, and some inherent bluesness about these things all around that corner of culture, like literally every other anime featuring highschoolers.

Aesthetically, I classify this as milking, i.e. a concept works very well and is easy to pull, so they pulled it a lot. The had my tears in Gate and Angel Beats and probably that comic with 3 boy highschoolers hanging out, but not really after those because there really isn’t much arguments in that department so you grow used to them.

Personally I don’t really give a f to it, partly because I really just don’t - not something I normally would be contemplating about if not brought up - partly probably I felt like I have already done this before.

So my opinion on this is:

• It is an idea, and some felt it. It proves its ability to cultivate strong emotional feelings, which has been milked over the years in the content industry. There is a certain net of aesthetics and culture, philosophical stuff around it. If you wish to experience that particular blues feeling for aesthtics reasons, you can pull it yourself by thinking these pretty effectively.
• there isn’t really other realistic use thinking it, all it does is making you blues. If you forgets, you would be forgetting, journalling won’t help because you be forgetting; if you don’t, you don’t have an issue then. Journalling is a good habit, this idea is pro that, so that’s good; but there’s not really anything you can do if you can’t “re-live the moments reading the journal”.

Start journaling now.

Mate, I look at it this way: if you’ve forgotten your memory, how would you know that you’ve lost it? You’ld just carry on.

I think memory works different for different people. I am nearly 30 and I don’t really remember much from elementary school (I mean the general experience, not the knowledge of course), nor a big part of my early life up to like 13-14 years old (but it might be connected to childhood trauma).

I am pretty good at learning new words in foreign languages and other similar stuff though.