And it’s not what you’d expect.

Let’s start with old people. Somebody might say: “I’m 35. I’m not old. Old is 45, or 65.” Yes, right. See you in ten years and you’ll just switch numbers.

Everybody is old.

Old people getting old: it’s not just bodies age. The memory data bank is getting larger, too.

“I remember when 10 years ago I was…”

Are you listening to the same music you listened to in school?

We need to dump that cache memory.

How often do you say or think:

“Years ago, there was a gas station in this place.”

Your memory load is getting larger. Pretty soon you’ll be like your old computer: clunky, slow, unresponsive.

You need to do a serious inventory of how much of what you’re thinking is past as in memory.

I know, it’s hard work. Reduce the past to ashes. Reduce thinking.

Whether it was “good” or “bad” it doesn’t matter. There is no good and bad.

Eckard Tolle said : Time is mind. Spend less time thinking. Shrink the cache memory.  Time is a series of NOWS. No more past. present and future. 

Watch yourself. You’re seriously aging when you remember too much.

What you should be doing: For example: spend much time looking for new music to listen to. (doesn’t matter if music is old, as long as it’s new to you).

You’re as good as you’re not remembering often. Because you have no reason to.