This is a short blog about what happens to my mind as I age. Tomorrow I will do one about my body if I can remember because of what's happening to my mind.
To tell the truth, I have always had trouble with attention deficit disorder. What I really missed was the Hyper Activity that seems to go along with it. I did have a tendency to go all out and then fall asleep where I stopped but it is the attention deficit that always caused me the most trouble.
I am not sure if I filter the events in my life into piles and a lot of the things I deem unimportant seem to never get done. I had to carry a day runner when I worked to keep me on track. I would spend an extra 15 minutes at the end of the day building my tomorrow's "To Do" list and then I would refer to it to stay on track. There were things that stayed undone but that was because of the priority I put on them. I always wanted to be in charge and for the most part that entails getting things done on time and to have them done well. I was the opposite of my friend that said he would do things just well enough to not get fired but not so well that he would be assigned that task again.
If I did something, it was pretty well done. Let me see, I was the security guy for several Inaugural dinners for the Governor. I was the "Big Bunny" at the Easter egg roll, I was always the guy that made sure the cannons were in place when they were needed and the right hand man for my boss for many events. One thing I did was to write the script for the Annual Convention of the National Guard Association's meeting for two presidents and then mine. I held the record of having the fastest Business meeting when I was in charge. I would have the Sergeant of Arms get the presenters ready and have them up on stage when it was their turn. In the past, they would come to the back door of the hall and be announced and take many minutes to get to the podium. I knocked all that out and finished by 2:30 what was seldom over until almost 4. By that time, the crowd would have thinned as people would escape.
As I age, I find that I can't always remember to get the things I am going to the store for. At one time I could brainstorm ideas and seldom left things off the list. In the past I could make a mental list and then think of extra things I needed as I shopped. Heck, I even went to Wall*Mart hungry the other day. That is almost a fatal mistake and thank god not a budget buster.
I have always had a flaw that caused me to not always consider the feelings of others. I am not sure if it would be called unfeeling or just too busy with other things so I don't notice. I have many people tell me that I tend to be too direct when I write. Direct hell, I can't even spell obtuse. (Spell checker keeps me straight)
Everything I have written above is slowly fading away and I am even having enough trouble with my eyes that I am not reading nearly as much as I once did. I could pick up a book and by reading the first page remember if I had read it or not. Now I have to get into the book a chapter to even remember the plots. I really wonder how long it will be before I can hide my own Easter eggs and wrap my own presents. Such is the revenges of old age. Now if I can remember to remain happy in spite of it all.
MUD, aka drifting away in my own mind
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