Explain it like I'm 5: wide-angle lenses for landscapes

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #19202913
A mind is a terrible thing to have lost...

Do you know what the best thing about it is? You meet someone new every day, even if it's the same person.

chuckmiller wrote in post #19202916
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Do you know what the best thing about it is? You meet someone new every day, even if it's the same person.
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You must treat your wife incredibly well*, if every day you think she is a woman that you've just met, and you're trying to make the best first impression you possibly can.


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A mind is a terrible thing... now wait what was I looking for again?

TeamSpeed wrote in post #19202931
A mind is a terrible thing... now wait what was I looking for again?

I read your post, and forgot what I was intending to reply.

Tom Reichner wrote in post #19202922
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*if you're married

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Yes, I'm taken. And it would be a terrible mistake to let me go, if you ask me.

Now if I could just remember her name......

chuckmiller wrote in post #19202916
Do you know what the best thing about it is? You meet someone new every day, even if it's the same person.

My mother is there...there is no memory, even from minute to minute. Even long term memories are fading.

She lives in our home, and when I put on a pair of reading glasses (I am well past the age of too-short arms!) she exclaims, "I have never seen you in glasses before!" I started wearing glasses at age 10 and lived in her home until I was 22, and did not switch to contact lenses until I was about 27...yet she has never seen me in glasses! I have to whip out a college graduation photo to show her.

chuckmiller wrote in post #19202972
Yes, I'm taken. And it would be a terrible mistake to let me go, if you ask me.

Now if I could just remember her name......

Is that dismaying or thrilling, to go to bed with a different woman each night?!

Wilt wrote in post #19202980
My mother is there...there is no memory, even from minute to minute. Even long term memories are fading.

She lives in our home, and when I put on a pair of reading glasses (I am well past the age of too-short arms!) she exclaims, "I have never seen you in glasses before!" I started wearing glasses at age 10 and lived in her home until I was 22, and did not switch to contact lenses until I was about 27...yet she has never seen me in glasses! I have to whip out a college graduation photo to show her.

That is so sad, I have seen this in action personally too. Next to cancer, it is one of the ugliest ways for a loved one to eventually leave this planet.

Wilt wrote in post #19202982
Is that dismaying or thrilling, to go to bed with a different woman each night?!

No comment.

Wilt wrote in post #19202980
My mother is there...there is no memory, even from minute to minute. Even long term memories are fading.

Sorry to hear that, Wilt. I watched my grandmother get there. She had 3 daughters and all 3 stepped up to live with her in rotation until she finally needed professional care. I don't know at what point she no longer knew who I was.

chuckmiller wrote in post #19203028
Sorry to hear that, Wilt. I watched my grandmother get there. She had 3 daughters and all 3 stepped up to live with her in rotation until she finally needed a professional care. I don't know at what point she no longer knew who I was.

Mine fortunately still remembers neighbors near her house (which she does not now live in), past friendships and acquaintances, and relatives. Great disposition (so much nicer than her being the grumpy old lady).

But little logical thinking left, and a lot of goofy behaviors and obsessions and compulsions which never previously existed,
and almost no ability to remember new things as well as losing the old memories of their past.

We have observed old age worsening a number of relatives and friends. Each one is so very different in their mental decline.
It is especially sad in the failure of all of them to even recognize their declining mental facilities, and to have mistaken belief about how many teeth they have left...a disconnect from reality! Yet so many fail to establish an advocate for medical and/or financial purposes, to act for them when the capacity is gone.

It is no wonder that scammers prey on the elderly, with their inability to recognize being scammed repeatedly. Unfortunately we usually do not understand the processes afflicting parents and grandparents in our younger days, but have to experience the decline to even acknowledge the inevitability.

Tom Reichner wrote in post #19017053

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I like this photo a lot