Serenity

When I was a boy, I had very good memory. For example, when I played Chinese chess with a friend of my brother, he messed up all chesses because he would lose. After that, I replaced every chess back to its right position without any consideration. I didn’t know why, but I just remembered their positions naturally. Also, I read many books in my childhood and remembered many poems, proverbs and stories.

It was pity that I didn’t realize that any function would be degenerated when it doesn’t be used for a long time. When I was a senior high school student, I hated to remember many boring things. I thought that the most important abilities were thinking and inference, so what I needed was to remember the root and how to derive everything from the root. From that moment, my ability of memorizing things was degenerating very soon. Now I can’t even remember a cell phone number.

In the beginning of noting the degenerated memory, I didn’t feel bad because I thought that the space of human's brain was limited. Therefore, we needed to clean some garbage and store more useful stuff. But when the degeneration became very serious, I knew that having bad memory was a really problem, so I retrained my memory recently. Although recalling something makes me more tired than other actions such as inference or analysis, I still try to memory stuff and recall old one. Maybe it’s my illusion, now I feel better than before. I mean, I can remember more things than before.

Another related topic about memory is studying English. Some people said we need to memorize more words to improve English abilities because words are the essentials of everything; however, some disagree with this opinion. Those with opposite opinions claim that you will remember nothing if you never use them. Therefore, just read a lot of English articles and try not to memorize the unknown words but to inference their meanings. Currently, I’m not sure which opinion is right, but I take the opposite opinion since it is a easier way for me to carry out.