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« Some people never go crazy. What a horrible life they must live!”

Charles Bukowski, (1920-1994), American writer and poet born in Germany.

Memory

Abating cognitive functions are a source of a lot of suffering for afflicted patients and their families.

Exercising them is proposed in multiple variations.

An aspect which puzzled me is that few propose art, like poetry for instance.

If remembering is exercised, forgetting is omitted, as it seems to occur naturally and be the main issue.

Though, writers like Conan Doyle, would pretend it to be important to make place, as memory would not be extensible to infinite.

Psychology authors pretend the opposite.

But writers and poets are more numerous on the other pendant.

As for instance the song “I know no history, I know no geography…”

In similar way, Socrate says “I know only one thing, that I know nothing…”

Victor Hugo was writing “I know I am nothing, but I make my noting from everything…”

A poem of Emily Dickinson goes as follows “I am nobody, and who are you, are you nobody too…”

“Take and let go!” is an important part of Zen Buddhist teaching.

Such paradoxical thinking permits not only to memory, like green grass, to expand, but also to all thinking processes to improve.

To my opinion, poetry, writing, drawing, painting, composing music and playing it, should be stressed upon in patients with cognitive deficits.