Great ideas

May 17th, 2024

I had two great ideas — one last evening and the other early this morning. They were profoundly deep and original and I knew that they would give me several interesting subjects to write about here. Or possibly I could even expand and explore them onto some longer written piece. Or incorporate them into a book I am writing.

Well — I am not writing a book yet, but am getting close to exploring the possibility and maybe even setting a timeline for getting an initial schedule for thinking about rehearsing some ideas I want to write about… But that is a completely different story.

So, I had two great ideas for writing. And I forgot them both as soon as I started to think about something else today. They completely evaporated from my mind, only leaving enough residue to know they were there. I tried to go back and retrace my steps of what I was doing when I got them in the first place. The one from last evening happened when I was reading a book about humankind and the symbols we use to communicate and navigate our lives and relationships. I remembered that that great idea was connected to my understanding of symbols, but nothing more than that came to mind. The second idea came to me when I was sitting outside before leaving for work and having a cig. I was looking at the beautiful blue sky and I remember I felt quite well and content about my life. And there comes another blank — I cannot on any level remember what came to my mind that I considered such a great idea. Anyway — instead of writing about any of those ideas I had and lost, today I am writing about my forgetfulness (and a need to record my thoughts as soon as they came to me) and this uneasy feeling that my memory will not be getting better with age…