There is a contest out, announced by Ryan Seacrest #IfIWokeUpWithAmnesia. You know, I am sure there is more to it than I know. Maybe I’ve just forgotten.

What I do know is that it is part of a contest to meet some boy band group called 5 Seconds of Summer (5SOS). This is the first I’ve heard of the group that I know of.

 

You know as a writer I get writing prompts to get your creative juices flowing, but a contest like this somewhat bothers me. There are a lot of people out there that might just wake up not remembering one morning. Alzheimer’s patients could be one, accident victims another. No, I’m not being over sensitive about this. I know it’s a childish, immature, insensitive idea for a contest to tweet a response to this. You also have to follow on of Ryan Seacrest’s  Twitter accounts to enter.

 

Could you imagine a person suffering from amnesia logs into Twitter to stay connected to friends in the attempt to hang on to those people the best they could and see that hashtag trending, they go to it thinking maybe there was some awareness for what they suffer from, and they find it is a boy band contest by a face that says, and they next contest is?

 

Just imagine that person woke up not knowing their parents, their spouse, their name, how to write, how to speak. Imagine that person a year later who only remembers the people through what they have told and forgets those things as well. Names and memories come in a burst and disappear the next day, frustrating the person and others. Imagine.

 

I bet they would feel sick at their stomach and want to lash out in anger. Or perhaps they would want to tweet about their hurt at it. But then maybe, just maybe, they would log into their blog that they use to keep track of their lives because they suffer from both long term and short term memory loss and decide write about it so they would be reminded of the insensitivity of Ryan Seacrest, who they had thought of as a decent guy, who actually went to the same University as they did and possibly at the same time.

 

Yes, they know it’s a contest with no harm intended but it still hurts. So yeah, I’m talking about myself. I don’t remember my life growing up except what I have written down over the years as a writer. I don’t remember what I had for lunch yesterday. If I sleep for too long I forget what happened the hours before I fell asleep. I have a list of names of people in Blog World I don’t want to forget and I annoy some of them with Tweet DMs and emails and FB messages to keep in contact with them. They don’t know I do it to have that personal connection so I have a better chance of not forgetting them.

 

Well my rant is done. If you are a fan of 5SOS, it’s not their idea for this particular contest I am sure, so don’t blame them. It might not even by Ryan Seacrest’s idea, but he did approve it.

 

Much Respect & Hope to remember you tomorrow, or later today if I take a nap

Ronovan-Amnesia sufferer

Oh and with Fibromyalgia there is a part that is called Chronic Fatigue and I crash at a moments notice and have to sleep or fight it to the point that my 24/7 Migraines spike. So I do hope I remember you later today.

 

 

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