[lr4444lr]

> My short term memory is falling off a cliff

Are you sure? I thought this was happening to me too, and then I realized when looking back 10 years ago that I have way more responsibilities now both in and out of work: I am not only getting more done at work, but also for more people. I am now picking and choosing which meetings to even hold, much less attend, because I have a higher throughput. My children's needs are much more complicated now than when they were younger. I have a side business.

I can't fathom how I would have even gotten this all done when I was younger simply due to how much leisure time I spent, much less kept all of this in short term memory back then.

[matwood]

> I thought this was happening to me too, and then I realized when looking back 10 years ago that I have way more responsibilities now both in and out of work

This so much. When I was in my 20s I never forgot things, but I didn't have anything that I really needed to remember lol.

[killerteddybear]

It's easy to forget about how many more responsibilities we take on as we age, simply by nature of how those responsibilities slip into our lives one at a time, bit by bit, gradually shifting our window of normalcy.