judy4etsu's Journal

   I was thinking today, gee, I wish more of my life was recorded electronically ..or in a searchable data base.  I'd like to go back and see my 9th birthday;  I have no idea what happened that day.  If I had a photographic memory..would it be a blessing or a curse?  So too might my life if it was all digitally stored.  If so, I'd imagine I could just as easily stumble across an action I've told my brain to ignore.

  Our brains are intricate and mysterious organs.  A friend just recently showed me her new toy..a miniature video, handheld game player, but she had catridges to use in hers to increase her brain power.  One of the brain games says the typical person only uses 10% of our brain capacity!  Now that is amazing.  Most other organs functioning at that level would cause us severe decreased quality of life.  Just look at those of us with Parkinson's...they say because in one small part of our brain, 80% of some cells have died that make a chemical, dopamine, required for smooth muscle movement!  We only start noticing the effects of this loss when we just have 20% left?  Another amazing brain feat!

   A searchable personal brain data base would come in handy in a few years when my daughter starts trigomometry!  I could recall up when I had it in 11th grade and not have to struggle to understand it again 30 years later in order to provide a little homework help.  I guess praying will have to suffice for now! 

   I guess my limited long term memory bank (and quickly decreasing short term memory too) is why I enjoy taking pictures so much.  My family always moans at any occassion about how many pictures I take.  Well, I'm not sorry.  Looking back at pics helps me remember the good times (and they will be glad I have them some day! ) 

  There is so much in life we don't take the time to take in, to place in our minds eye.  I hope I can do more of it each day, and that I'll learn more about my life, my world, my Maker, and how I can best give back to each part of it.  So I'll be grateful that I have such neat tools as the internet to find information, and I'll be happy that I can remember what I can, and I think now that maybe an electronic database of my life might not be such a good thing.  Maybe how my brain is made and used is just how God wanted it, and it's up to me to make the very best use of what I've been given!