Ideas floating around: Use it or lose it has popped up uninvited...ah, but right on time. I'm thinking of the "mature" folks now...those of us in our later years. The following thoughts began with a fear of dementia and how that fear seems to be silently proliferating. Many, if not most, of my older friends hesitate to mention it...a dead giveaway, and I speak from experience.
The question is, why is dementia proliferating...in what seems like double-time? Personally, I believe it is due to our not being required to use our brain so much today. The many conveniences that we are offered today preclude the necessity of using our brain.
A couple of for instances: I have a new lamp which turns on and off practically on its own. Tap, it is on.. tap again, it is off. There's a hand warmer that heats up on its own...it judges body temp all by itself! I can tell my TV what I want to see, and it delivers.
Then there's my experience with my 2025 Civic...a nice car but certainly one of the lesser money-wise. It has more bells and whistles than any one person could possibly need. But all of its conveniences led to the use it or lose it thought. I've had the Civic since the end of September...less than three full months...and already I have damaged the entire right side. Be it known...I have never ever had a driving accident, big or little, until this one. Yes, I do suspect my lazy brain...now being afraid it is dementia.
There is nothing wrong with any of these, per se...but where's the mental effort? Where's the attention we need to pay, the necessity for use it or lose it, when the "it" is our brain?
For a while now, several friends and I have committed to a three-minute meditation at or about 8:00 AM every day. We use: For America, Thy will be done and then sit with whatever God speaks through each of us for America.
My intention now is to find another meditation-exercise to do for the benefit of my older friends...and me.
Thank you.
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