The human brain is fascinating. All of a sudden, I had a strong memory of a certain book by a prolific author. There was this powerful compulsion to locate the book on my Kindle. I did and discovered that exactly a year ago on that day I started reading that book but then something interrupted me and I never finished.
My brain knew it was the anniversary of the book’s abandonment even though I had no memory of that.
On another day, I felt ill and anxious for no reason. The idea of food was particularly repellent. I told a friend how I felt and she gave me a weird look. “Don’t you remember what we were doing on this day a year ago?” she asked. It turns out this was the anniversary of the day when we sat at a restaurant for 7 hours, waiting to hear from her oncologist. My brain enacted the anxiety and nausea I had felt exactly a year ago.
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