Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncomp because we all make mistakes,
so turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.
Oh those moments, We've all had them. It's not an
aging issue. It's an everyday issue. Especially since we have
so much content and expectation around us. We are becoming
forgetful or is it forgetfulness? Is it just that we
don't take it all in the way it's meant to be.
We're choosing to run. We're choosing to get to as
quickly as possible because everybody is on a time schedule
right forgetting things that are sitting right there in front
of us. And if you don't know me by now,
I am a show prep whore. I am somebody who
preps everything to make sure that I don't forget anything.
And yet I had a situation. It happened. Did I
freak out? Maybe just a little. Hey, Sarah, this is
the choice. This is what I was writing while the
sun was waking up on a brilliant new day. Today
we're reading from June sixteenth, twenty twenty three. What was
the story? Was it a moment of forgetfulness or just
one of those days. I live a Google calendar lifestyle,
which means I'm always on the run in all things
that I do. Like I said, I prep, I'm very
good at getting the required tools ready for the next event.
Yesterday I left my recording equipment behind a black case
on the floor near my wallet and keys. How did
I not see the recording tools? My mother had dementia.
I always felt my sister did as well. Of course,
I had to do some research because that's what I do,
and research shows there are many differentfferent types of dementia.
It's not just one type. There's several different layers, which
is why we should always go to get professional help.
They know what's going on. We cannot sit here and
google a self diagnosis. The early signs of dementia difficulty
doing daily tasks, repetition, problems with communication, getting lost, personality changes, confusion,
loss of interest, and forgetting old memories. Now I daily write,
and I'm not going to lie to you. The reason
why I daily write is because my mother, for the
longest time, would always tell me I don't remember, Mom,
how don't you remember? This is part of my journey
moving forward. I need to grow from where I was
in my years of one to maybe five, because I
don't really remember those years. I don't remember. I don't remember,
and that spired me to start putting things on a
page twenty nine years ago, so that on those days
when I tell people I don't remember, I'm actually going
to say, hey, you know, my journals are in the
other room. I give you full permission, love and support.
Go in there, look up the day you're talking about,
and see exactly where I was. Forgetting old memories just
one of the signs. It says nothing about a black
case in a dark side of the house, but it's
nice to know that each day is always a new
step toward brand new beginnings. We all fear forgetting things
and hate the moment when we realize, oh my god,
oh my god, oh oh my god, oh I forgot
those tools that we need in our every day. Forgetting
them in your past, which was maybe thirty five forty
minutes ago or twenty three minsiles down the highway. Forgetfulness
is what we do. It's who we are in this
modern age. It doesn't mean we have to accept our forgetfulness,
but what we've got to do is we've got to
put our keys in the same place every day. And
you know, it wasn't fair to my waking self that
was going to a movie premiere so early in the morning,
that my equipment is in a dark case in a
dark side. I don't put light on that side of
the house that early in the morning because I don't
want my birds to wake up. It's not that I
forgot it or that I didn't see it. I just
didn't recognize the moment. I just didn't recognize the moment
and the requirement to get into the transition of getting
to where I needed to be. But I did feel
like crap. I did hate myself in that moment. What
was I going to do? I needed this because I
had three incredible interviews, including a conversation with Jacqueleene Bessett
to ful actress, What was I going to do? You
have to punt, you have to rely on other tools.
It teaches you that what you have in your comfort
zone of tools, there's always something else just on the
outside that we don't use. But we need these moments
of forgetfulness or stumbles to be able to say, hey, look,
it's not as bad as what you think. Because society
and technology have provided other layers of outreach. So I
want you to go into this day forgiving yourself for forgetting.
We all do it. It's part of our DNA. But
it doesn't mean that you're going into an element of
aging just because you keep forgetting what else is going
on in your life that is causing the confusion When
you sit down and just ask yourself, what was what's
going on before you open the door and left, What
led you to that moment of forgetfulness? Dark case, dark
side of the house, on the floor. My normal routine
does not involve me looking down at a dark case
on a dark floor forgive