Memory

          Have you ever thought about how important of a role that your memories plays? You have a short term memory, which is where you will store the information that you only need to know for a short period of time. This would be like the grocery list that you just made in your head real quick before running to the store or  a lot of the information that we pick up from the conversations that we are in. We also have long term memory, which is where you store the information that you need to know for long periods of time. This would be where all of you childhood memories and the routes to places you go to a lot are stored. We use each of these memory types in our every day lives in order to have conversations or to be able to retain new information.

      A man named, Clive Wearing, is said to have the worst case of amnesia ever. Amnesia is the inability to remember events for a period of time due that could be due to brain injury or illness. In Wearings case he is only able to remember between 7 to 30 seconds, then he forgets. His short term memory is unable to store the information being given to it. His wife, who is the only person who he physically remembers, says that by the time that he is answering your question and he is replying to it, he has already forgotten what you have asked.
        I can relate to the loss of memory because my grandmother passed away from Alzheimer, which is a disease that takes away the memory and the ability to function of the person that has it. She forgot how to do tasks and then forgot people. Alzheimer, along with any other memory hindering diseases, are truly crippling. This should make you appreciate your memory more, I know I appreciate mine.


Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwigmktix2Y