My mum said something that was funny but for real, it's a serious matter... We need to start praying against the spirit of forgetfulness". This was after a few times she forgot important things that shouldn't be forgotten, situations that cost her more because of forgetfulness. There is almost no one who can escape such situations.
But it differs with people, some persons could forget themselves talk more anything that's just connected to them someway. And some just forget little things, it's even hard to call it forgetfulness as I'd rather say they are insensitive to little details. I'm not as forgetful as I've seen people display but I've had really crazy situations.
Situations where I forget what I never imagined I would forget no matter how distracted I get, it's funny how our brain remembers only after sometime. I always wonder why the brain skips important things causing us to blame ourselves for some consequences especially having to spend more or go through an even harder time.
One time, a friend of mine got on a bus after a small misunderstanding with her parents, she didn't realized when the bus passed her supposed stop. She had to go with the bus till it's final stop and take it back to her stop, spending more money and so much time on the road than planned. She hit her brain out of annoyance lol.
A lot of instances when it comes to forgetfulness but one I can't forget in a hurry is the one time I was on transit, traveling to another state. I love to travel but when I have to move so much load in travel, it's not as exciting for me anymore. I was traveling far and bought a lot of things for the people I was meeting there, I had so much loads.
Thankfully, it was a one way journey and I had to take just one long ride so I made sure to go early enough, take a good seat, position my loads well in the boot of the vehicle and I had my earphone plugged to my ears for music and movies at intervals. The journey was going smoothly with no issues until the vehicle broke down halfway.
I think the main reason I got forgetful that day was because I was the only one with loads in the boot, I could have been reminded if others were getting their items out but that didn't happen. Out of annoyance and long wait, the other few passengers highlighted from the vehicle, took another ride and went off but I had to stay back.
Funny thing, I remembered my loads at that time so I couldn't just start looking for another vehicle since it would cost more. I decided to wait for the driver to fix the vehicle, he asked myself and two others still remaining to get down so he could check the vehicle. I got down, still with my earphone plugged and was waiting for the driver.
Cut long story short, driver zoomed off with my stuffs and it was so funny I was thinking of just taking another vehicle to continue my journey before I remembered that my load were all gone. It's the way I actually slowly remembered my plenty load that had me laughing later. Luckily, he got the vehicle repaired and came back to find me as I just walked by the road side confused.
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