"When I was your age, I didn't forget things easily, you people of these days, forget things easily to the point that sometimes you can't even remember your names"
"Huh? I can't forget my name"
"Oya, what's your name?"
At this point, I took some minutes of silence "not to remember my name" but to reminisce on the whole conversation that just ended.
Up there is a conversation I had with my aunty; I was on my own, sitting with my head filled with different thoughts, and then she walked in and asked for a favor. That I should remind her of something in the next two hours. In the middle of those hours, we engaged in a different convo that I can't even recall at the moment. "So how does she expect me to remember the favor?" Well, I forgot; that's how those words above came into play.
Forgetfulness is an integral part of human nature, the mind works in mysterious ways that sometimes I can't even understand, imagine you were supposed to do something important, that thing will stick in your head like it was placed on with glue then boom out of the blues another thing replaces it and you are left in the state of despair. And when that thing has to do with someone else, then you would stand in there like a statue wondering what happened. "I remembered till all of a sudden" the thing disappeared.
Now here is a little story of what happened to me at the office. There is this client my company has; when I prepare their monthly invoice, after submitting the hardcopy of the invoice at their head office, I would also send a softcopy of a Nominal Roll to enable them to make payment early before the monthly runs out.
Told myself the moment I got to the office, I would send the Nominal Roll. Entered the office and was occupied with something else and told myself I would send it later in the day. That is how days turned into weeks and finally to month end, and this client is yet to make payment.
The client called my MD and reported that they hadn't received the Nominal Roll; after a few seconds, my intercom rang, and when I picked up the call, I heard "Tari come up". I got to my MD's office, and the first question he asked was, "Why didn't you send the Nominal Roll to the client?" In cases like this (you have no reasonable excuse) because you are at fault, and it's something you can't defend "cause the evidence is you".
I couldn't utter a word, I just left my MD's office to go send the Nominal Roll to the client. The aftermath of that event was history "I won't lie".
I've come to realize that often what causes us to forget things is procrastination "I'm a living example of this" what I can achieve today, I don't carry it over to the next day because I know myself that I'm likely to forget.
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