Sunday - September 09, 2007
 Memory Tricks
Yesterday I went to an event for a club that I haven't
been involved with for about four years. I didn't attend the entire event, just
a short bit. I met them for lunch in Leakey, Texas. If you've never been
there, I highly recommend taking a convertible on a nice fall day. There is no
better way to live life than
that!While there, a beautiful woman
walked right up to me, smacked me on the arm vigorously, and exclaimed, "so good
to see you, Mike, you've been gone too long." She then went on to talk about
what I was doing the past four years, she had been keeping track to a small
extent.I had no idea who this woman
was.
Then I met her husband. What a fantastic guy.
He's an engineer, now he's started his own business making turbo chargers for
boxsters and other cars among other things. He also knew I had gone off to
Iraq, was in law school, etc.I had no
idea who he was either.I sat and
talked with them for a while. I think the woman was a bit insulted that I
didn't remember her, and I can only say I'm
sorry.I've never been good with names
or faces, it's a continuing embarrassment to me. I was especially humiliated
time and again overseas when I didn't know people who worked for me in a combat
zone. It's not from lack of trying, I'm just bad at
that.My point in bringing this up is,
if I can forget such wonderful people who would be, and may have been for all I
know, great friends, how many other wonderful people and things have I
forgotten? How much richer is my life than I remember it?
I guess life is good when you know so
many wonderful people that you can manage to forget some of them. It's too bad
I can't remember that it's even better than I
knew.
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