I can drive forward fine, I am actually beginning to enjoy our early morning rides. But I've been trying to learn how to back and park, and I am doing everything wrong! I have a major directional problem. I can never remember right and left. I have to actually think 'right hand, left hand' whenever a patient tells me he has a lump on his right neck, because I'd otherwise start feeling his left neck for the lump. And when I give directions to autorickshaw/taxi drivers, I always tell them the wrong side. Now when I try to reverse, I go in the opposite direction, always! It's driving me mad! I feel like giving up.
My other recent problem is that I forget things. I would get up to do something and find that I have already done it. I usually don't lose things, I am usually meticulous with where I put stuff so I pride myself in not being one of those harebrained ladies. But age is catching up with me and fast.
Lately I find myself hunting high and low for things I know I kept somewhere. Most of the times, I'd find it neatly tucked away. A neighbour asked to borrow our ration card today, and that made me discover I have no idea where the heck it is. I'll hunt some more, and when I don't find it, H will tell me off a little. And I'll go apply for a duplicate, and once I get the copy, I'll probably find the original safely filed away somewhere. I just know I'm doomed for a miserable old age.
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Don't give up, dear diary! Slow and steady wins the you know what. I once took driving lessons too but the reversing just scared the shite out of me so I gave up, somewhat to my regret. My sister also has a left/right problem especially when it's in Mizo. She slaps her arms and goes ding/vei lol. And I think memory lapses isn't so much an age thing as a having so much on your mind, you can't be expected to remember every little detail thing.
Thanks for the words of encouragement, Calliopia. Sometimes I think there are people who can drive, and people like me who'll always have to be driven around :P
Your sister sounds like me, or I sound like your sister. lol. And about not trying to be able to remember everything, you're probably right. If a guy has to keep track of the amount of things we womenfolk do, the world would be chaos.
Sometimes don't you just feel like give your ration card a miss call from your mobile phone to know where it is? :D Happens to me so many times... my keys, the remote control, office files, whenever I cant find them, I have this immense urge wishing I could give it a miss call and I will find it immediately from their "ring". :)
Exactly Kim, I get the same urge. It's frustrating not knowing where something is.
khalh tawp mai rawh...a chhe lo vang ... :)) she used to drive , and i am proud of it..i know you can do much better ............!
Aven, nia, in nu pawh ka ngaisang sawt mai. Hma lam pan ai hian hnung tawlh hi a lo harsa zawk a nih hi! I training chu a nuam zel maw? Rawn thau haw luah ang e aw.
一棵樹除非在春天開了花，否則難望在秋天結果。.................................................................
I am 58 years old and only learned some left and right rules a few years ago. One is look at your left hand and the thumb and forefinger make an L. For locking a door, "lefty loosy, righty tighty".
I know about when I put things away for safety and can't find again.
I found you at random on blogger and I also have SAD. I live in the north of the USA in Minnesota and winter lasts a long, long time, early nights and cold. This year I tried the blue lights. Not sure whether it helped or not.
Be well,
Carol
生存乃是不斷地在內心與靈魂交戰；寫作是坐著審判自己。......................................................................
Carol, it's nice to know there are other people who have problems with their rights and lefts too. Sorry to hear about your SAD syndrome, I guess I don't really have it, so I apologize for sounding slightly irreverent about the syndrome. Hope you get better soon. And thanks for visiting
It takes all kinds to make a world.............................................................
向著星球長驅直進的人，反比踟躕在峽路上的人，更容易達到目的。............................................................
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