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Posted on 12/23/2008 4:21:44 AM PST by CE2949BB
ScienceDaily (Dec. 20, 2008) — It turns out there's a scientific reason why older people tend to see the past through rose-colored glasses. Medical researchers have identified brain activity that causes older adults to remember fewer negative events than their younger counterparts. Neuroscientists from Duke University Medical Center have discovered that older people use their brains differently than younger people when it comes to storing memories, particularly those associated with negative emotions.
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Sorry, not buying it. I’m approching senior status and still feel the hurt of betrayals from family many moons ago.
Uncle Leo: “I’m an old man. I’m confused! I thought I paid for it. What’s my name? Will you take me home?”
“I’m approching senior status....”
In my youth I was rather zealous shall we say. A fellow worker once told me to lighten up on the Ol’ Man (Boss). He said to me “he’s old enough to be dead”. Well, I’m there now “old enough to be dead”, and I agree with you.
Not buying it either.
How do you explain Harry Reid?
Rats! I was hoping that this pain would finally eventually fade. I intend to forgive. But forgiveness is a process and not an event. I have to keep working through it.
It would be nice not to have these hurts crop up in my mind and spoil events today.
That does explain why old people keep voting Democrat.
During our family's annual Festivus Airing of Grievances, the old folks are just as bitter as the rest of us.
He's a demoncrat, he just makes up the negative crap as he goes.
Life’s too short...remember the good times!
Thank God!
Which leads to the ‘Good Old Days’ syndrome. I remember when Free Republic was a much nicer place, with fewer vanities, only hard hitting stories about the Clintons and their goons, and Republicans ran congress.
Ah, the good old days...
from an old guy...70 or so... this is just another “egghead “ study....
Thanks for posting this.
One thing I like about FR is that folks get good stuff that isn’t all politics.
so all of those pics of our posterchild for u-g-l-y (Helen Thomas) CAN be unseen after all.
...praise God!
Now...the real question is...does the senility cause the image to fade away, or did the image cause the senility.
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At 75 I have earned the right the carry grudges!!! Now if I could just remember who I despise...
The brain is both brilliant and stupid.
For example, imagine your life as a yardstick, covered in dots of red ink, each of which represents an important, to you, even in your life. But on the whole yardstick, there are maybe only a dozen large dots, which are the “formative” events, as far as you are concerned. You remember them over and over, and tell yourself that they are important to you. The rest of them you remember, but not with great emotional content.
The “big twelve” are totally subjective. The most Earth shaking events to other people barely registered with you, and vice versa. But to you they are your autobiography, the stuff that really mattered in your life, and why you are the way you are.
Now imagine de-emphasizing them and putting different events you experienced in their place. All you are doing is retroactively changing emotional content.
With some practice, you could completely rewrite your autobiography in about any way you see fit.
Most people also rewrite events in their minds after the fact, so that they are more idealized to what they want. This is the old saying, “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
that was mean
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