Tag Archives: forgetfulness

Is Forgiveness the Easy Way Out?

Ask most people who have been victimized if they can forgive the person who caused them such pain and they will usually say no because their emotional scars run too deep. Every time they remember an incident that caused them trauma, they become angry all over again. If having the gift of forgetfulness would help, there would probably be all kinds of self-help books on the market telling people how to forget. They would probably bear titles like The Seven …

Raising Your Parents

One of the hardest things to witness is seeing your parents, once vivacious, decisive, and socially active, incapable of making even the simplest decisions for themselves. The aging process can be very hard on parents and children, in different, but equal measure. It can be the crippling symptoms of disease or just the disorientation associated with old age, but somewhere along the line you may find yourself in a role reversal, parenting your parents. All of a sudden, your advisors …

When Memory Fails

I once read a book about an eminent surgeon who had developed Alzheimer’s Disease and no one knew it. He had always been somewhat eccentric and had an abrupt manner. When he started to exhibit symptoms of the disease, no one noticed it because he had always been a little standoffish and he didn’t encourage people to get too close to him. He had no real friends and his wife just assumed he was under a lot of stress because …