Memory Gap

January 24, 2009

The thing I hate about my brain is that if I don’t have a deep personal relationship with someone (in other words acquaintances that come and go at school or in the workplace, or people I haven’t told my life story to, or people who haven’t seen me drunk yet and vice versa) and I haven’t seen them in a long time, I either forget their name or face, and worse - sometimes both.

I’ve had numerous awkward moments wherein the person would call my name, grinning from ear to ear and start a conversation, and then the conversation would end and the person would be long gone before I remember their name. I would be left with a blank stare, which I hope the person wouldn’t have noticed. I would then rack my brain before I go to bed, trying to remember the person’s name, sometimes to no avail. Next I would feel so embarrassed that I hope we never see each other again or at least that the person forgot about that meeting and never mentioned it to anybody.

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