One way to reawaken

When we compare memories, hers and mine often don't match.  Sometimes, they do, of course, but it is only natural that two people of different genders, with different backgrounds, would sometimes be struck by different things.  We have both noticed our own increasing tendencies to strike the "senior pose", the body and head position that a person often takes when trying to recall something once known but now refusing to come to mind.

I now realize that some forms of forgetting might refresh my world.  If I have met you but I don't remember you, I might take a new look at you and your virtues and abilities, being surprised at how pleasing or helpful you can be.  

Same with my backyard and neighborhood.  When I spot a jerky little chipmunk or a splooting squirrel, it is a new sight despite my seeing a chipmunk and a splooter yesterday.  Just another gift from aging.