Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

I have always loved this quote and knew I would be able to say it one day.

Just a few days ago, I thought I had all the time in the world.

But… it appears I was wrong.

For a while now, I think I have been lying to myself. I kept telling myself that nothing would stop me from doing what I wanted when I wanted. I thought I could continue to push the envelope and learn new things, but my latest endeavour, the reMarkable2, was such an abject failure. I just couldn’t make it work.

Was it faulty, or was that the excuse my brain used?

Despite all my yoga, multivitamins, and endless determination, I have been slowly deteriorating—and I have barely noticed.

Now, my brain has joined the party.

I have been forgetting things for ages, so much so that it has become a family joke. My sister, who is two years younger than me, is now in the same boat. We never thought that our natural competitiveness would end up with us wondering who would get worse or heaven forbid, leave first—something I refuse to think about.

We can no longer rely on each other to remember bits of the important things, something we have always relied on and that has always worked. Joint memory failure is such a sad and depressing state of affairs.

Whether we like it or not, we are slowing down, and there is little we can do about that.

What we can do is stay cheerful. Try to maintain the fun in the little things in life.

Most of all, we must learn to enjoy the process…

We’re not having it!