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Student @ Nnamdi Azikiwe University,Awka.
THE THINGS WE DROP WHEN WE'RE FULL.
<p><br/></p><p>There is a particular kind of forgetting that has nothing to do with age, or carelessness, or not caring enough. It is the forgetting that happens when you are carrying too much , when the mind, like hands overloaded with groceries, simply cannot grip one more thing.</p><p>We treat forgetfulness as failure. A character flaw. Evidence that we are somehow less. But perhaps we have it backwards. Perhaps forgetting, in certain seasons of life, is not the mind breaking down , it is the mind doing exactly what it was built to do: triaging.</p><p>The brain is not a warehouse. It is a living system with limits, constantly making invisible decisions about what to hold and what to release. Under pressure, under stress, under the weight of too many open loops unresolved tensions, it begins to let go of the edges. The name you walked into a room for. The word that was just on your tongue. The task you were certain you would remember.</p><p>These aren't failures of memory. They are signals.</p><p>The Stoics had a word — prosoche — meaning attention to oneself, a watchful awareness of one's inner state. To forget constantly is, in a strange way, an invitation to that kind of attention. Not to fix your memory, but to ask what is filling you so completely that nothing else fits.</p><p>Overwhelm is not dramatic. It rarely announces itself. It arrives quietly, disguised as a full calendar, a hundred small responsibilities. And then one day you forget to reply to a message you read three times. You stand in the kitchen not knowing why you came. You lose words mid-sentence.</p><p>This is not you falling apart.</p><p>This is your mind, faithful and exhausted, telling you that something has to change , not your memory, but the weight you are asking yourself to carry.</p><p><br/></p>
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