I Should Be Doing Something Other Than Writing This Sentence (But I Forget What It Is)

So here is a question for married folks: if you and your spouse combined are equivalent to one brain, then do you play the role of the long-term memory, the short-term memory, both-- or as my colleague Krystina said about me when I had the audacity to wonder which one I was . . . "You're neither, obviously," but my wife does not agree; she is definitely the short term memory, keeping track of everything we need to do on a day to day basis and remembering just enough to make our household run smoothly, without experiencing the anxiety that I feel-- I either think about too many things, far into the future and freak out, or I forgot about everything I have to do and then suffer a sudden shock when I realize how busy I should have been . . . but she credits me with storing many of our long-term memories: movies we've seen, stories from our world travels, where to find old files on the computer, etc. and while her job is far more practical and important, I think my memories are an important aesthetic contribution to the relationship; like the arts, I could certainly be cut without ill-effect, but that doesn't mean I'm insignificant.

4 comments:

zman said...

Like shoulder hair.

Dave said...

i am definitely the shoulder hair of our relationship.

Mr. Reck said...

Is there an option where you just sporadically remember things that may or not be important for anybody?

The band sounded great last night, btw.

Dave said...

thanks! never did a "medley" before . . . a little scary. nice job with the dj music and the video. very entertaining.

maybe you are the RAM of the relationship.

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