Clive Wearing
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to live like a child, with no past to regret about, no future to worry about?
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to just live in the present, living every moment as it comes along?
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to forget everything and not remember anything?
I started out slightly amused at the way he greeted his wife with a hearty hello and a huge hug, the way he went, “Oh really.” and “Oh ok.” to everything his wife told him, from his sister’s wedding to his own son’s Ph.D. My amused smirk started fading when he said that he had “no memories, no dreams, nothing” and that his mind was “inactive and dead”. What struck me the most was the way he greeted his wife, asking her for a dance, hugging her tightly and kissing both her hands, because he “thought that he had been in a state of unconciousness for the past years, and that this was his first time seeing her in a long time.”
It may seem like a bad thing, having severe amnesia and having a memory span of 10 seconds, but then again, wouldn’t it be nice to be free of your past problems? Wouldn’t it be nice to live life without any regrets because you have no past? Wouldn’t it be nice to live your life free of stress, without the need to plan for your future and worry about what “might go wrong”?
Wouldn’t it be nice to love your loved ones the way Mr. Clive Wearing loved his?
