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How old were you when you lost your mind? (Original Post)
struggle4progress
Dec 2012
OP
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being wasteful. How true that is!"
struggle4progress
Dec 2012
#13
I read your post and I agreed with it, even though I couldn't remember what it was about. I thought
struggle4progress
Dec 2012
#12
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)1. 64
Luv Joan Baez.
This is one of my favorites.
benld74
(9,904 posts)2. Which time????
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)8. That's what I was going to say!
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)15. Me to.
I don't know if I have it right now.
rrneck
(17,671 posts)3. Dunno. Never missed it. nt
Angleae
(4,482 posts)4. I had one?
Initech
(100,078 posts)5. Somewhere between 1/20/2001 and 9/12/2001. Sounds about right.
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)6. When I was about 6 or 7....
I knew it was basically a lie at that point.
Denninmi
(6,581 posts)7. LOL, 47.
Didn't take me too long to find it again, though, slightly worn but intact.
lastlib
(23,238 posts)9. twenty-one--right in the middle of my senior thesis in college....
...haven't been the same since.
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)10. A mind is a terrible thing to lose
but I'm hot on its trail!
struggle4progress
(118,285 posts)13. "What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being wasteful. How true that is!"
trof
(54,256 posts)11. About now, to 'seriously' answer your question.
Disregarding the video clip.
I'm 71.
My short term memory is like a colander.
A lot of stuff just falls through.
Recently I read a book that;s been in my library for a while.
I'm sure I read it when I bought it.
But I just read it again and enjoyed it and didn't remember how it ended.
Gettin' old ain't for sissies.
struggle4progress
(118,285 posts)12. I read your post and I agreed with it, even though I couldn't remember what it was about. I thought
I might read it again, but by then then I was doing something else and forgot to
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)14. on my 17th birthday.