I was going to
write about something specific a day or two ago, but within an hour,
I'd forgotten what I intended to write about. Now this is not a
particularly common occurrence – in fact, it may have been the
first time it's happened as far as this project goes. I can say with
certainty, however, that it was not another love-related
subject. Thankfully.
I don't want to say I'm a very forgetful person, but I do find myself forgetting things on a semi-regular basis. Sometimes without the “semi” prefix even. For instance, yesterday, I changed the password for one of my e-mails (of which I have 3 in all, in case you were curious). By today, I'd forgotten what the new password was and ended up changing it again.
Certain other things, then, I remember like the back of my hand. Things such as birthdays and phone numbers – as well as random numeric sequences, the origins of which I tend to remember less. I also remember faces and other visual details fairly well. I dare even say my memory is best on the visual side.
On an unrelated note, I bought myself a Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set today. It was something I'd been contemplating for the better part of a year, and now I finally took it upon myself to do so. And expectedly, my mother flipped out, thinking it was another video game when I “promised to not buy any more video games”.
First of all, I never promised that. I'll keep buying as many video games as my finances permit. Besides, there are video games coming up that I'm genuinely looking forward to and want to lay my hands upon as soon as I can. Second, Dungeons & Dragons isn't a video game. The logo on the plastic bag in which I carried the thing should've been enough to give that away. But no. Apparently “games” needs to always be preceded by “video” when it comes to new games I buy - at least according to her.
She was wrong, though. Dungeons & Dragons is primarily a pen-and-paper role-playing game. Granted, video game adaptations of it do exist, hence I said “primarily”. But I didn't buy a video game version. Rather, I bought the original, non-virtual edition.
My mother seriously needs to learn to let go of her apparent biases. Especially in regards to the whole video game thing. They are in fact not the only types of game that interest me. They never have been. And it's only good to get interested in many different things. Life is too short for being a narrow-minded jackass.