{"id":1275,"date":"2018-12-01T15:11:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T22:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2018-12-01T15:11:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T22:11:52","slug":"remember-whats-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/2018\/12\/01\/remember-whats-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember what\u2019s important"},"content":{"rendered":"

My mom says you remember what\u2019s important to you. Whenever I would forget to do chores, or forget homework, she would remind me to find these tasks important so I would remember to do them. I did my best. I committed schedules to my mind, repeating them relentlessly so I wouldn\u2019t forget.<\/p>\n

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  1. Check classes for homework.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Remember to write homework done.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Bring my books home.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Go home and have a snack.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Do homework early.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Double check all homework is done.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Do the kitchen.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Shower.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Bed.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Despite this, I kept forgetting books in my locker for homework. Mom had to drive me back so often that they initiated a rule that I would have to pay 3.50 for the tank of gas I wasted. I got so stressed I\u2019d forget and start sending money, I just piled all my books into my backpack to make sure I didn\u2019t forget anything. So I guess mom\u2019s tactic worked, and I believe I only paid once before I started taking all the books back home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    But then another issue arose: even to this day, I forget to eat. It started in high school, where weekends would come and without a scheduled break for lunch, I\u2019d forget it existed. I would eat a bowl of cereal in the morning and, sometimes, that would be all. It grew worse when I grew older and started making my own dinners, my own meals. Sometimes I\u2019d reach bedtime and realize I had eaten only a single thing all day. I\u2019ve taken to asking friends to text me around lunch on my worst, most forgetful days.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    One of those days, my best friend died. He died of cancer at a young age. I wasn\u2019t even in high school yet. I remember his smile. I remember his clothes. I remember his house.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    But for the life of me, I cannot remember when he died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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