I’m 61 and remember my first day of kindergarten but I can’t seem to locate my keys.
I remember mine, too, but I can’t find my glasses............oh, they’re on top of my head!.................
“I’m 61 and remember my first day of kindergarten but I can’t seem to locate my keys.”
none of our memories are “gone”
the older ones were well indexed (likely many times) long ago
but it is the indexing system (Brain talking to itself - “now where shall I put this so I can get it back sometime” that no longer works as automatically as it did when we were younger;
so a lot of newer stuff - particularly little stuff - gets chucked away with little or no or a bad index to where it is put
but I have found a method-helper
as much as I can I stop myself from doing ANYTHING, particularly any of the small stuff, AUTOMATICALLY
instead, I will say - just in my head: “I’m setting the keys here”; “it’s 11:30 and I’m taking the Losartan”; etc., etc., etc.; and lo and behold the brain finds the entries for the memory when I seek them
and I have started NOT forgetting most anything
it seems that with age we have to take-over, mentally-actively, some of the indexing of things to be remembered, and it also seems from my experience that we can