Call me old or whatever, but lately, I've come to realize how I remember faces of people, but I can't seem to re-call their names ! Sometimes,I'm amazed with myself, as I can spell out the very detail of the outfit and accesories that the person had worn before, how I felt about it and how the conversation could just move from perhaps colour to culture, places to countries.
Fascinating isn't it on how these are soo vivid, but nothing comes near to the name !
It is true that a picture paints a thousand words.Looking at a restaurant menu for example can be soo mesmerizing - tempting us cusotmers to perhaps pay more only to be disappointed a while later with a dish that is not only 2 shades different, but also contains less ingredients, more oil and swallowed with utter disbelief, a teeny bit disappointment and a pledge to never order the same anymore, or even worse - to never patronize the joint anymore !
Now coming back to names and faces.
So what do I do when I bump into friends, acquaintances or even irritants in public areas such as the mall, outside the cinema or even at the gym , of whose name I cannot possibly remember?
I simply make conversation without inferring their names ! During which, half my brain would try soo hard to remember the person's name, whilst the other half would be "trying" to pay attention to keep the conversation going, with the hope that the name would suddenly just pop up !
Anyone has or had a similar experience?
Fortunately, if I have a friend with me, I just introduce the friend, and allow the other party to introduce theirself - in the process which I'm "told" of his/her name. Thankfully it has worked thus far. God knows how long luck is gonna be by my side in regards to this !
Maybe some of us, me included is not using that better part of the brain to capitalize our present and possibly our future for the better of ourselves?
Fascinating isn't it on how these are soo vivid, but nothing comes near to the name !
It is true that a picture paints a thousand words.Looking at a restaurant menu for example can be soo mesmerizing - tempting us cusotmers to perhaps pay more only to be disappointed a while later with a dish that is not only 2 shades different, but also contains less ingredients, more oil and swallowed with utter disbelief, a teeny bit disappointment and a pledge to never order the same anymore, or even worse - to never patronize the joint anymore !
Now coming back to names and faces.
So what do I do when I bump into friends, acquaintances or even irritants in public areas such as the mall, outside the cinema or even at the gym , of whose name I cannot possibly remember?
I simply make conversation without inferring their names ! During which, half my brain would try soo hard to remember the person's name, whilst the other half would be "trying" to pay attention to keep the conversation going, with the hope that the name would suddenly just pop up !
Anyone has or had a similar experience?
Fortunately, if I have a friend with me, I just introduce the friend, and allow the other party to introduce theirself - in the process which I'm "told" of his/her name. Thankfully it has worked thus far. God knows how long luck is gonna be by my side in regards to this !
Maybe some of us, me included is not using that better part of the brain to capitalize our present and possibly our future for the better of ourselves?
Or, could this just be a mere coincidence, simply because of the medium, where images outweighs words, as how videos outweighs still images. No?
