Mental laziness

Tizliz

Is my brain seizing up due to old age? I just cannot be bothered any more. I reach for the calculator for the easiest sum, I give up half way through articles because they require too much concentration.

OH and I have always had discussions over breakfast about things in the news - this morning it was about the shape of the earth. It is an ellipsoid. I had to look it up and gave up reading the explanation as it was too hard for my brain!

Does anyone else get like this?

It all depends on what you call old age Tiz Liz.
I am 91 years old and its been a very busy time for me on the net because I have had SO many folks coming to me from worldwide wanting stories about life of yesteryear.
As for lock down I have known worse times when I was a child having to live in the Anderson shelter for 57 days and nights during the London Blitz in the war with bombs dropping all night and one wondering if their name was on one then to finally see dawn breaking one day to see your house blown to bits during bitter winter with no heating and light only candles. All that apart from shortage of food.

In todays lockdown at least we have TV, central heating, phones, I-pads, computers and SO many other luxuries to help keep the brain and body going.
Why not look back over your life and write down things that stand out, be they sad or comical, for any future ancestors. ? That is how my tales have got to be read round the world because I wrote a book about the first 20 years of my life that I donated to charity so that all proceeds after printing costs are taken off goes to my local Childrens Hospice.
I am more that pleased to say it has sold many copies and made a 4 figure sum to help get equipment for this lovely place.
Get cracking on probing back in your mind to see what you can remember from your earliest memory and take it from there.

Can't be bothered hits the nail on the head. How do we kickstart ourselves?

Maywalk.

What a good idea to write down your memories.

I remember there being many Millennium projects encouraging people to create written and oral histories and it still goes on.

I volunteer for a couple of heritage organisations transcribing oral histories. I often find myself taking to people in other walks of life who have an interesting story to tell but who are overcome with modesty when I encourage them to write it all down. No-one will want to hear about that. But they might as your experience proves.

We also have Listening Benches scattered around the county where one can sit and listen to someone's personal story, memories of childhood games, work and war experiences and more recent memories too - exactly the kind of thing that people chat about on GN.

I have been invited to join many groups on Facebook Flexagon and I have put a chapter up each day of the book I wrote and even been asked about the posterity years of when I got married.
It really has been a busy time and I have had over 500 (Get Well) messages over the past 6 weeks while I have been in hospital and they have really kept me going.
That sounds interesting what you mentioned and if you can point me in that directionI would like to have a look.