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ancient_filesLittle known fact about me? I'm bad with time. Ask other people how old they are and they'll tell you off the bat. Me? I mentally check what year we have and then the math starts.
I'm doing okay on a small scale, like remembering the birthdays of my family and friends but when you ask me the 'year' they were born... yeah. *sigh* To this day, the only birth years I can remember are the ones of my parents and sister. That doesn't mean I can tell you how old my sis is right now though. I'd have to do the math first. ;-)
What it does however mean, is that I have no idea how old my grandparents are. I know that both my grandfathers are going on 90, but if they're 87 or 88 right now? No idea. I also know that my still living grandmother is quite a bit younger than my grandpa, but since we've never been really close... nope, no idea.
Most of the time I'm okay with not knowing how old somebody is, because I've never cared about age. What makes me a bit sad though is that I can't remember when my other grandmother died. I know it was shortly before her 70th birthday, but then, I have no idea when she was born either. It's so damn frustrating, because the other day I was wondering about the day when she would be dead for longer than I have actually known her. I loved that woman to pieces and not being able to figure that out? Makes me feel like shit.
The funny thing is, I'm usually good at remembering all kinds of numbers, be it license plates or other unimportant stuff. I mean, I can still tell you the license plate of the baby blue car my grandpa had when I was in elementary school (and the one of the next car). *rollseyes* That's hardly of any use right now, so why is that knowledge still available to me when I can't fucking remember when the people closest to me were born?
So yeah, I have a problem with time.
I'm doing okay on a small scale, like remembering the birthdays of my family and friends but when you ask me the 'year' they were born... yeah. *sigh* To this day, the only birth years I can remember are the ones of my parents and sister. That doesn't mean I can tell you how old my sis is right now though. I'd have to do the math first. ;-)
What it does however mean, is that I have no idea how old my grandparents are. I know that both my grandfathers are going on 90, but if they're 87 or 88 right now? No idea. I also know that my still living grandmother is quite a bit younger than my grandpa, but since we've never been really close... nope, no idea.
Most of the time I'm okay with not knowing how old somebody is, because I've never cared about age. What makes me a bit sad though is that I can't remember when my other grandmother died. I know it was shortly before her 70th birthday, but then, I have no idea when she was born either. It's so damn frustrating, because the other day I was wondering about the day when she would be dead for longer than I have actually known her. I loved that woman to pieces and not being able to figure that out? Makes me feel like shit.
The funny thing is, I'm usually good at remembering all kinds of numbers, be it license plates or other unimportant stuff. I mean, I can still tell you the license plate of the baby blue car my grandpa had when I was in elementary school (and the one of the next car). *rollseyes* That's hardly of any use right now, so why is that knowledge still available to me when I can't fucking remember when the people closest to me were born?
So yeah, I have a problem with time.
