Brevity of Levity

I've always loved rhyming words. Well, mainly poetry.

But anything that rhymes catches my ear. Probably yours, too. It's the reason commercial jingles always do so well.

I can remember television ads from when I was a child. Not every ad, of course, just the ones with really catchy tunes. But who wants to go around singing, "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should." ?

Although most of those jingles have outlived their usefulness, they refuse to be deleted from my memory cells. And do I really need them taking up space? I don't want them taking up space; and I never intend to use them again. But there they are.

And there are plenty of new things that I need to learn, to remember, to hold onto.
 But there's no space for the new stuff. Actually, according to scientists, there is still plenty of space for the new stuff.
So why do I forget things so easily the older I get?


By the way, it's not just me--I hear people in their 20's say the same thing--their memories have holes like Swiss cheese.

Maybe I'm not eating the right things. They say you are what you eat. Maybe the things I've been eating are not the things that are conducive to retaining memories.

I know that nutrition plays a part in brain processes. Sometimes when I eat cleaner for a couple of days in a row I can feel the fog lifting from my brain and my mind is sharper, clearer, and thoughts and words pop into my head faster and easier.

So why don't I eat that way all the time, you ask?

Because bread and cake taste better. It's so hard to stay away from the things that are bad for me.
And tea tastes better when there's real sugar in it.