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Brian McMillin's avatar

A number of years ago I fostered two girls, ages 4 and 12.

One weekend I took them out into the woods to explore and have an adventure.

I have long experience in Orienteering and know not to get lost.

As we got deeper into the woods, the older girl started showing signs of anxiety:

she was lost, and with some Old Guy who she barely knew.

We started back and the 4-year-old led the way.

The little one had spent the entire time excitedly looking around in all directions and remembering all the new sights.

She was outdoing me at my own skill.

When Orienteering you must CONSCIOUSLY remember your back-trail; the little kid was doing it naturally!

The teenager had lost the natural ability and focused only on moving forward.

(Quote from "The Great Race" - "First rule of Italian road racing: 'Whats'a behind'a me is'a not'a important'.")

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The point is that there is NO REASON to remember where you put your phone.

You have already put it down a thousand times and there is nothing at all SPECIAL about your putting it down this time.

Why SHOULD you remember it? It certainly will not matter tomorrow or next week or next month.

And yet I remember a quote from a movie I last saw 40 years ago.

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Darrell's avatar

I was coming here to comment but I forgot what I was going to say!

Kidding…this was a great read. I’m sharing with my psychiatrist brother-in-law and plan to check out the app. Assuming I remember.

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