Fish Eye Louie

I was at the sink this morning doing the daily wash up when a name suddenly popped up in my head, “Fish Eye Louie”.  This is a name from my childhood about 70 years ago.  When I was growing up in the 40’s and 50’s every kid in the neighborhood had unique nickname, Fish Eye Louie, Bonehead, Pinhead, Jugger, Weasel, Skop and so on.  Why should these names come into my head after all these years? 

What an amazing thing the human brain is. I can remember sitting quietly under a pine tree during a Vermont hunting trip when out of the clear blue sky I started to recite the Hail Mary in Polish.  Something I did in Polish school when I was a very young kid.

After the Fish Eye Moment my brain really started to wander back to a ton of very clear memories from way back. It seemed that even if situations years ago were not pleasant ones, my brain turned them around and made them quite nice to remember. Halloween nights, fishing trips, ball games all kept flying into my head.

I was actually enjoying the trip back in time but wondered why there were now times I opened the refrigerator door and stood there wondering what the hell I was there for.  Taking coupons to the store and never cash them in after shopping. Every day I think of things I need to look up on the computer, but do you think I can remember any of them when I go downstairs and start up the computer? Did I take my pills this morning?  Don’t know, but I remember the first time I took a puff of a cigarette.

I’ve been told that as we age, our long term memory intensifies while the short term goes to hell.  Boy are they right! 

Do any of share my problem?