I was thinking how often we joke about our memory and what we remember and what we don't remember,

and particularly when we reach a certain age, and age of which I now have become familiar,

that I belong to.

And I even heard about this elderly widower who was dating an elderly widow.

And he said to her, he said, did I propose marriage to you last night?

She said, I know someone did, but I can't remember who it was.

But the reality is that scientists tell us that from every study that's being done,

that most of us, the most that we can use of our brain capacity is less than 20%.

That is the one that uses the most.

The average person uses less than 5% of memory capacity that God has placed in our minds,

physiologically placed it there.

We are capable of remembering far more than we admit. And of course, unless some illness that affects memory, that's different.

In fact, our minds are capable of storing up to 86 million bytes of information.

When you think about this, this is like hundreds of thousands of books that can literally be stored in our minds and our memory banks.

But as long as we tell ourselves we can't remember, we want to remember.

It's like that self-fulfilled prophecy.

But the truth is we all remember what we want to remember, right? I mean, we really do. We remember

that which we want to remember. If we don't want to remember, we can't let it go by the wayside.

Even kids, young kids use this excuse. Well, I just can't remember. In fact, some of them use

that as a convenient excuse for when they don't do what they're

supposed to have done.

I heard about this boy who was asked, like all the kids in the class, remember a certain

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