"The brain decays but muscle memory remains."
Spoken about a patient with dementia while they played the piano. While playing the piece from motor memory, the elderly patient believed she was practicing for an audition with Juilliard.
Although this is a fictional account from one of my favorite television shows, this was the saddest thing I'd heard all week. To think that in life, whether it be real life or imagined, dementia robs countless people of memories.
The very moments that define us as people can disappear into nothingness at the hands of such a heinous condition. It pains me to think that it could happen to anybody near and dear to me, myself included.
If this terrible inevitable should occur to me, I hope that I remember this.
Psalm 73:26.
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