Mental laziness

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.

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.

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

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.

I had to shield and have found that my legs have become weak. I used to enjoy yoga, so know what to do - but am I doing it - NO. I need a kick up the backside.

Well you’ve given my brain something to work on annodomini. I looked up the following….’To calculate a mean arterial pressure, double the diastolic blood pressure and add the sum to the systolic blood pressure. Then divide by 3’
I’ll try that when I’m more awake!!

I like the book recommendations on gransnet and have read a few now. I have access to a lot of free books throughProbus but many of them are hohum and not really worth reading. I can put in the titles of the ones on gransnet on the local library website and get them for 3 weeks free.

Lockdown was bad for my concentration. I try to limit tv time, but find that hard to do. I have found word games seem to be mentally stimulating. Vision is too bad to read, alas.

Correction - Now I am trying

I find my concentration isn't as good. I do some of the puzzles in the 'i' newspaper and realised I had stopped doing the ones that require more effort, so now I am making myself do them. Now if I am trying to make myself read all the interesting books lined up and stop buying rubbish novels on my kindle..... My mum stopped reading as she got older. I don't want to be like that.

In lockdown we have been limited to staying at home with little communication with others.

Listening to and watching the news about COVID it’s no wonder there is little interest in anything.

If there is a long thread it’s usually a big problem and someone is in desperate need for advice I will read them. If I don’t feel I can advise I send good wishes.

I could have written your reply hollysteers.
I just can`t be bothered and iv`e noticed if someone posts a long thread i just give up reading it,shame really.

Lockdown and heat lassitude. I have now had the same headache for nine days. I would trepan myself if there was any evidence for it…!

Oh I am the same with long posts and links sometimes they are like essays cant be asked to read them. I think the hot weather dosn't help either. Keep it short and sweet its easier to take in.

I'm pretty good at the sums on Countdown, but a week or so ago, I had a request from my medical practice to take my blood pressure twice a day for a week and let them have the result. I duly did this, but then realised that they had also asked me to send them the average: the average of both systolic and diastolic readings twice a day for a week! Oh I know how to do it, but why does my result come out different each time I do the sums, even with a calculator?

No, not me. I read everything from start to finish. Today on Facebook someone had posted a photo of what he thought was a thunderclap. I knew it wasn't, so I researched cloud formations and found out that his cloud was in fact a stratocumulus lenticular cloud.
I try to work out maths problems, but usually resort to asking Alexa because maths never was my strong point.
DH is the one in this house with brain fog!

Complete mental fog here. Went out today, thought it was Saturday so now I am one meal behind. I have a pile of paperwork that needs sorting and putting away, can’t be bothered, I also have a pile of books to read but just don’t get around to it. Think my brain has gone into lockdown

You have made me feel better, it is comforting to know I am not the only one

shysal sorry and Gagajo I only opened my iPad to search out the origin of “three lions” meant to be watching the Olympic opening ceremony

I remember the days when I'd sit puzzling over a name or face and would often wake up in the middle of the night with the answer. These days I immediately ask Alexa the answer, but it can't be good for me because my brain doesn't get a workout any more!

I can’t be bothered with links. Either say what you want to say or don’t bother as far as I’m concerned. Maybe a thread for links and then I can avoid them all?

After specific life events, I can't be bothered thinking too much. I just live in the present and accept things as they are. I'd stand up against an injustice or when necessary but, for the most part, don't have the mental energy.

GagaJo

I blame the internet. I browse so much and waste so much time on it. It's affected my concentration.

Also, it’s too easy to just google something, you don’t have to think any more.

How to spell a word, you looked in the dictionary.

Need information about a topic, you looked it up in an encyclopaedia or went to the library.

Trying to recall a song or an actor’s name. You fretted about it for ages, pestered people to try and recall it for you, now it’s all there at the touch of a button.

Same here. If you want me to read your posts on Facebook keep it short! Some people write essays! Same with articles too long or complex I just skim. No longer do even the easiest of sums. Just can’t be bothered anymore.

I blame the internet. I browse so much and waste so much time on it. It's affected my concentration.