Much of the literature about keeping our minds sharp says to continue to challenge our minds, to try new things, to make our minds work hard, to stay bright as we age. This makes sense to me. I know that muscles get weaker when they are not used, so it is logical to me that the mind needs continued challenges to stay strong, as well.
I hated Sudoku at first. I couldn't understand the fascination with it. Now that I have discovered the online, timed version, I am a true addict. I tend to play 2 or 3 times a day. I reported in an earlier blog that I was down to 5 minutes, 8 seconds. That was on February 19. I also reported at that time that I thought I was dropping a second a week.
Well, I just checked the calendar and that was 8 weeks ago. My average time is now 4:59, which would mean that I have dropped 9 seconds in 8 weeks. Tada.
My DS2 challenged me several years ago to hit the "Espanol" button on the debit card machine at the grocery store. I still do it every now and then just to shock the ol' cerebellum. And now I am really trying to learn to crochet, which is so hard when my patient DIL is not around to guide me. I select a stitch out of the little booklet I have, and make a 6" square or so, to use for dishcloths in the kitchen. I am coming along, although my last one was definitely a trapezoid, not a square.
Beethoven went deaf, Van Gogh went insane. I knew a very handsome and vain fellow once who had AIDS. His greatest fear was that he would get the cancerous lesions on his face, and of course, he did. My own fear is that all my years of drinking Diet Coke will cause me to go daft in the head. It would be just too ironic if I did. So me and the old brain are workin out every day.
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