Thoughts start to fade when we can’t focus or when we’re tired. Or when there’s too much to remember at once. We try to memorize and recall the things we’re supposed to do before those thoughts disappear. But with everything going on around us, it’s inevitable that they will slip away and vanish.
It’s why we can’t help but forget things sometimes, no matter how hard we try not to. We’re just holding on to too many thoughts at once–too many things that are jam-packed in the “priority” bin of our mind. At a certain point, the bin will be full, and everything at the bottom will be forgotten.
It’s only when we do an overhaul that we discover all the things we were supposed to do but didn’t. We have to sort through the madness, organize everything into neat stacks and categories like we’re trying to put them inside of a binder.
Then we find things we forgot to do, things that were so important that we can’t believe that we forgot them. But could we really blame ourselves with the dozens of things we tell ourselves to do each hour–each minute? There’s only so much time in the day, and only so many things that we can remember. Besides, thoughts aren’t like books that we can access anytime we want. Some of them will just fade away.
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