I, for one, can no longer remember birthdays, anniversaries and phone numbers without digital aids. That's because we are no longer required to physically dial a number or keep mental notes as we have easy access to all of these on a hand phone that has become an extension of our memory.
When a 25-year-old Jungkook, lead singer of the K-pop boy band BTS, was asked in an interview who his favourite Hollywood actor was, he thought for a moment, smiled and said between his dimples, 'I know who it is, but I don't remember the name.' And which is your favourite film, persisted the interviewer. The lad thought for longer, and then said, 'I know the film, but I cannot remember what it was called,' and bursts into peals of laughter along with his team mates, enchanting both the interviewer and audience! I felt a kind of kinship - if a young boy celebrity had no problems confessing his forgetfulness, why not a senior like Biden or me?