The things we forget to remember... So, I am reading this book, What Alice Forgot , by Liane Moriarty. It's about this woman who lost 10 years of memories with a bump on the head. She wakes up to find herself getting ready to turn 40, with three kids, and getting divorced, rather than 29, madly in love, and getting ready to have her first baby. She doesn’t remember her kids. And she feels the same about her husband as when they were newly married, but keeps running into the uncomfortable wall of him having the memories of the past 10 years, including the decline of their relationship, that he can’t just “forget” and go back to being the people they were before. Ashamed over the kind of person she has (evidently) become and shocked by the bitterness of her once-loving husband toward her, she is wondering, "How did this happen? Where along the way did we go wrong?" It got me thinking while I was running (shocking!) about my own life and the changes from decade to decade. I ...
Fighting apathy with intentionality.