The Importance of not forgetting
Importance of Not Forgetting or the Importance of Remembering Why is it so crucial for people to not forget? Or why is it’s so crucial for people to remember? First off, let’s start with some background information on memory. Memory allows us to remember the problems or triumphs we’ve done in the past and correct them by remembering what went wrong or right. The part of my brain remembering to bring the progress report was stunted by my ability to retain the news in my long term memory versus my short term. Short-term memory allows recall for a period of several seconds to a minute without rehearsal. Most likely, the information about bringing my progress report was so minimal compared to the need to pay attention to more important information like going over the past competition, our problems with what we had done and the good things we had done in these scenarios that we had trained ever so hard for the past few weeks or even months. The human brain uses priority when paying attention to certain things. I can admit though, forgetting is a problem. So much, in fact, that there is a medical disease for actually forgetting to much or everything, called amnesia. Officer Irwin always asks us, ‘what if you forget your gun at home?’ and I always answer in the same way, ‘Well, I’d go home and get it.’ This got me thinking, what if I couldn’t go home and get it? What if on my way home I ended up getting shot at? And if I had not forgotten my gun at home I might have still been alive. Or what if the zombie apocalypse happened and I need my gun to protect myself from the vicious flesh eating zombies? These could’ve been avoided if I had not forgotten to bring my gun to work that day. Though I had forgotten it, this whole situation could’ve been avoided if I had taken the time between the 4 clubs I do all week, taking the SAT’s and the 7 hours of additional school every day to just pay attention to the little note I had written down in my notepad from explorers two