Memory Rot

I was speaking to my brother’s school friend over the phone; the same school that I went to. My rother told me his friends name-Anand, I was like who Anand; I didn’t recollect who I was talking to. Anand genuinely asked me over the phone that do I remember him & the honest person that I am I bluntly said NO. Well how could I lie. Anand was like c’mon how can you forget me & I was like hey I am not supposed to remember everybody on planet earth. He gave me certain clues but my memory just went for a toss. I told him that if he comes before me then I would certainly recognize him but currently I cannot recollect. He was certainly disappointed & disheartened. C’mon now you guys can’t blame me. It has been more than a decade since I was out of school & this was in my early schooling days. Suddenly out of the blue I remembered him & I told him that I remember him. I told him all about him & he was so relieved & then we kept talking for around 20 minutes; it was as if I had met some old lost friend over the phone. We were both happy. He said-“In college days you used to hardly speak & now looking at the way you speak it doesn’t seem you are the same Vikram”. Compliment

Sometimes & now a day’s most of the times I don’t remember a lot of things; or at least I think I don’t; both being equally worse. I had logged on to a colleagues PC because my PC wouldn’t let me open the famous internet entertainment website ‘You Tube” & boring as office is meant to be; with no one to talk to on a gloomy Sunday I thought of watching my favorite genre of movies ‘Horror’; I missed out on 1920 as i got a mixed response about it. So not willing to take a change to do away with the cash for ticket I thought it would be wise to watch it this way. So all thanks to You tube I was able to catch up on it. Ok so I was on the 12th part & I had to attend to natures call so I went to pee after locking my PC. I came back with the effect of someone watching me or following me in the deserted office. It was maddening; but I chose to get into this situation after watching the movie so no one else was to blame; & I hate to blame myself. I would just go mum with the mirrors reflecting back me on myself & deep within I was praying to god that it was only me. God; I didn’t want this creepy feeling in a secluded office where the human trace was bare to minimum, & the effect was such that if two humans ever crossed path they would wither jump or be so amused to see another of its kind on a Sunday. Well after dodging the mind spirits that were after me I put down my weight on a chair & let out a sigh of relief. I was thrilled that now I could see the concluding part of the movie. I entered the password & it didn’t work, again I entered & again it didn’t authenticate me. I paused to think what the password actually was & I was blank. My mind failed to give me even a trace of what the password was. The password which I so clearly remember a while ago had now gone miles away that I couldn’t run to catch it, any hint of trying to remember it would throw me further apart & I gave up since entering three invalid passwords would lock the account out & this was clearly a thing I didn’t want to happen especially when it was the only source of entertainment in the otherwise empty workplace. Called up my colleague to help me out & as soon as he told me the password I was like hey I knew this.