Have you lost knowledge…?

Question

When I was younger, 9 thru 13, my grandmother would take me with her on her herb hunting trips. She taught me the names – and how to identify- plants, trees, and bushes.
She even trained me how to identify birds just by their sound. I even learned tracks of different animals and various insects. At 18, I moved to the city. Today, to my regret, I remember very little of this wisdom.

Answer 1

Every once in a while little tidbits of this or that come back to me....like something gave them a nudge. It's all still there with you, Gem...think of it as your treasured memories just being "in storage".

Answer 2

The phrase, "Use it or lose it" applies to alot when you get
older. You need to keep exercising your brain with stimuli or
you will keep forgetting things and not be as sharp as you
were when younger. That's why they suggest an older person
get into the habit of doing puzzles, whether written or manual,
and reading more about life and living things. Taking up a
hobby where you can make something creative, and just in
general really start using your mind, instead of being idle in
front of a TV screen in your houseshoes.
For a short while recently I seem to have lost alot of my
memory and thinking abilities when I'd been in the hospital.
Now I find it's found its' way back, but I am not as sharp as
I once was, and somethings I do forget. And have to think
about them until I possibly can remember a name or a place
that's right on the tip of my tongue. That can really be frustrating. But I think we've all been there a time or two.

Answer 3

Yes, my Dad was a great chef! My Mom could not boil water! LOL He was also very agrarian, at heart. Married a city gal and they spent most of their time incorporating these differences.

Therefore, Daddy and I would can and make jams and jellies while my Mom went to town! LOL! He and I loved canning and put away much food together. However, Dady died when I was 16 and many of his canning techniques and such...are gone. I can still make the jellies and jams but, I cannot remember how to can all the veggies. We did can some pickles this year and they are wonderful...bread and butter! But, I get very discouraged when I try to recall how to can other items and cannot recall how.

I wish he had written these down but, I do not think any of us knew that he would be leaving us so soon. Therefore, I am happy to have what little knowledge left. I miss him more and more, the older I get!

Answer 4

the knowledge I learned is not of use any more or at least not many would like to use it. I was taught how to mend a fence, brand a calf, repair a windmill, dig a post hole, kill and butcher a beef ,round up cattle. I was raised up in the late fifties and was around people that were in their fifties and sixties, I learned how to do it their way.The dads showed them and they showed me.I was loaned out to different ranches and worked with a lot of different cow hands. I enjoyed the stories they told.Some were not to well schooled in the books but were some of the smartest people I have ever known.They taught me how to cook track animals and find the foods to keep you alive .Their are very few foods that I can't cook and I can do it with the basic ingredient

Answer 5

You were very young when you learned from your grandmother. It's been years since you've had that hands on experience, so it's just natural that you have misplaced a lot of what you were taught. I'm sure that if you were to become familar with that info again, in time, it would all come back to you. I don't think it's lost wisdom, it's buried in your subconscience mind.

Answer 6

My father's mother was 1st
generation Polish immigrant.
My mother would take me on the bus out to her house and it was like Warsaw in the l800s.
She wore black always. She
could not speak English and
so had to teach me Polish.
I got really good at it and had
conversations with my granny
in Polish. I was only 5-6.
Sad to say, after she died, I
had noone to speak to in Polish and so I lost what knowledge I had. the only thing I can remember now is
Polskipan. I have no idea
what it means.

Answer 7

My grandmother taught me how to wash clothes out by hand. Gargling with warm salt water,when I have a sore throat. She taught me many things, that I'm sure I use without thinking much about it.
It's still there my friend.

Answer 8

Don't know, was away for a few years in the military, but even though things change and you forget, nothing really changes and seeing again is remembering.

Answer 9

I believe they say if you dont use it you lose it. I forget things every day but I also learn new things every day. It is okay to not instantly recall things that we dont use on a regular basis but some of it will come back when you need to remember .

Answer 10

It's funny I barely remember last week, but I remember facts I learned years ago, details, places, names, etc. I do very well at Trivial Pursuit.