I’m very good at forgetting things, losing things, or breaking things. For example, this past year I’ve: lost three water bottles (got it back the last time), forgot my camera in a restaurant after GYC and forever lost it, lost two USB sticks, lost important music for a summer trip, locked myself out of my car twice (once while it was running), dropped my computer and broke the hard drive (my second lost hard drive in just over a year), and left my phone on the roof of my car and drove off and lost it.

That’s not an exhaustive list. I don’t know why I do these things. I don’t consider myself to be dumb or incapable. I’ve started keeping a ToDo list and writing a schedule for myself. That’s helped a little, as it has relieved some of the mental stress of trying to keep track of everything. But even then I still do stuff like this and it drives me crazy. I’m ashamed of it but it seems there’s really nothing I can do about it but live with the consequences of my random mishaps. It’s frustrating and humbling to have to mention what I did to someone else, or to hear someone mention it.

Part of the reason I haven’t been updating my blog is because I haven’t been able to use my computer. I had a post-it note on my desktop with a list of all the blog topics I was interested in writing about. Now that I use computer labs, I don’t want to put forth the effort remembering topics and taking the time to write about them.

I guess it’s part of life that I have to learn to deal with it. Any suggestions?

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