Big Smile, No Teeth: Did you remember to pay the water bill last month?

A study covering nearly 2.5 million people over 17 years discovered that declining credit scores and rising payment delinquencies showed up years before a clinical diagnosis of dementia. — Filepic/The Star/Image was human-created, AI-aided

I forgot to pay my rent last month. That was a first. I do not forget to pay bills. Sometimes I choose to ignore them, but I do not forget them.

This would not normally concern me. People forget things. And the thing about forgetting things is that it’s sort of guilt free because we don’t remember what we’ve forgotten. Hooray.