Do you sometimes feel like you mix up the memories of where you meet certain people? This always happened to me. When I first came back to HK, I walked on the street - I saw faces or people or friends who greeted me..............I got confused if I knew them from HK? S'pore? Melbourne? KL? China? Or even some travellers I bumped into during the trips to Cambodia or Laos. Or they are just friends of my other friends.
Yesterday, I heard a bad news. Someone I was supposed to know in Australia passed away. He should be very young. But I got no recollection of who this person is? Am I seriously a bitch? I wasnt, actually, when I was in OZ. I was very gullible, naive, thou complicated & deep thinker - yet maybe instrinsically I am a bitch. How could I not remember someone whom I might have seen every week in a church fellowship & he used to hang out with my friend's ex - and my fren & ex were always hanging out with me!!??
Maybe, I could indeed let go of past memory. I used to be very good at remembering every detail of my memory - I saw it as a duty to remember, to be precise. However, I realized it's actually a bad thing - so I started deleting details. Well, of coz I would remember important details.
After 10 years back in HK, I have become less confused. But now, another problem surfaces - Oh, I met this person from this friend or that friend or at a party or at another networking meeting? Man, I am not paid to remember people's faces and I am bad with names. Very bad. I need to see the name written down to indeed remember. So, if you introduce me to your frenz, I would surely make them very happy but pls ask them not to ask me what's their name, as I am 99.9% sure - I WONT REMEMBER.
I'm not any better... while I am okay with faces (which aren't too ordinary), I am terrible with names. When I'm introduced to people, their names literally go in through my left ear and straight back out through my right. I forget within seconds.
ReplyDeleteMore than once I stared at someonone on the street like a freak because he/she was looking at me, only to realize afterwards that we had met before! heheeee
It's okay we meet so many ppl in our lives how can we remember every tom dick and jerry!
in terms of seconds, yes me too. kekee....we bitch!!
ReplyDeleteI checked w mike, Daniel seah did play bass! So your memory not totally off!
ReplyDeleteActually, I thought it's someone else. I saw the pictures posted by some OCFers, I recognized him, sort of. But I actually couldnt recognize him too. I thought he was from Indonesia (from the pic) - which I almost asked if that was the guy we exorcized during a camp, when u still hadnt joined OCF yet then........but then dont think he was that guy........sorry, indeed very vague. I hope his family is ok.
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