Can You Remember

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Written for https://lifeafter50forwomen.com/category/what-do-you-see/

Can you remember where you were until the world told you who you should be? That is our prompt for ‘‘What do you see’’, this week. As a child, I often wondered what I was like when I was a baby. I thought it was just me who couldn’t recollect that period in my life, but it is just how the brain works.

To forget one thing, is to remember another.

We are the only mammals to speak, read, and write, yet we probably wouldn’t be able to discuss the month before. Part of the problem is that our lives are repetitive. We get up in the morning, drink coffee (or tea), spend the day at work, go home, cook dinner, and go to bed, and the next day is no different.

Humans never forget parts that are linked to our emotions, especially with life and death. I can still see myself holding my children for the first time and saying goodbye to my dad, yet I couldn’t tell you what I had for breakfast a week ago, or word for word a book I read last week.

My childhood was a happy one. I wish I could tell you who learnt to read (probably my dad, sister, or brother) or what my first word was, but I cannot. It is why we write things down, or take pictures, because with a prompt it is easier to link the happiness or sadness, and our neurons fire a response.

As a woman, the world told me (in the seventies) to stay at home, be a mum, and teach the next generation. I am a mum, and I contributed to my children’s learning, but so did their dad. I went to work because I couldn’t stay at home all day. I ensured their grandparents looked after my children, and they developed a strong bond.

Being female in 2026 is different. That is a good thing! They can be whatever they want to be. Some may choose to be at home, some a pilot, and some, like my granddaughter, want to be a vet.

The world can tell them what they should be, but it is important that they make their own choice.

That is a good thing.

Published by writerravenclaw

I am a fifty something mother of two grown up children, and one beautiful grandchild. I have been married for nearly thirty-four years. My first book was published ten years ago. I wrote my book Sticks and Stones because of my experience of being bullied at school.

17 thoughts on “Can You Remember”

  8. It definitely is a good thing, Diana! Happy to see things change from when I was a child. Let’s hope this current political climate doesn’t continue to take us even further backwards than it already has!

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