Live like you'll get alzheimer's ..

I live my life like I will get Alzheimer's disease (AD). This probably sounds strange because I am only 23 years old of moderately good health ... but since the exit of my teen years I've made sure to live this way. What does it mean to live like you'll get alzheimer's? AD is a far too common condition in which the brain begins degenerating. My first encounter with AD was when I was somewhere between 10 and 11. Like normal, I was visiting my family over the summer. Stoked, I came to my grandmother's house, but she just couldn't remember who I was.

As a teen, I thought I had a great memory until I realized it just wasn't so. My best friends could remember entire events that I had forgotten except upon detailed reminders. Phone numbers that I frequently used became foreign. Crushes that once occupied great space in my mind became forgotten acquaintances. Therefore, at the onset of my adult years, I decided I would write everything. How I felt, when, why. How I met a person, when, where. The goods, the bads and the uglies. In my phone, you see your name accompanied by the method, place, season or time that we met. Full names if I know it.

If you've heard the song, live like you're dying, an interesting ditty about not taking your life for granted, you must also remember to live like you'll forget it all. You'll find in this blog that I write so as to remember when I'm 65 exactly what I once was intrigued by at 23.

Live like you're dying - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTALLCna6gY