Don’t You Forget About Me
“The forgetting feels like someone is taking a chisel to the bedrock of my brain, prying everything loose. I’ve started keeping a list of questions, remnants of a past life that I now need a beat or two to remember, if I can remember at all: What time do parties end? How tall is my boss? What does a bar smell like? Are babies heavy? Does my dentist have a mustache? On what street was the good sandwich place near work, the one that toasted its bread? How much does a movie popcorn cost? What do people talk about when they don’t have a global disaster to talk about all the time? You have to wear high heels the whole night?” Ellen Cushing in The Atlantic: Late-Stage Pandemic Is Messing With Your Brain. “We have been doing this so long, we’re forgetting how to be normal.” (This is basically the same reason I switched from indica to sativa.)