Alzheimer

Forgetfulness / Amnesia.

When he knew that past had nothing to give to him, his attention slowly began to withdraw from (his) past. Till yesterday he had believed the past is something that really existed in time. 

Yesterday only the past in terms of time and also in terms of memory, started fading away fast.

He had no idea.

This was quite unexpected.

Suddenly he could no more recognize the people around, and the things and the situations he was surrounded by.

His wife was utterly shocked.

Couldn't believe her eyes.

He became silent. Not dumb.  

He would try to say something but could say only in gestures.

The son and daughter were with him. 

They too were having their own spouses and families. And yet kept looking after him carefully.

When the past was gone and the memory was

blank,  he seemed to watch in vacuum.

Only he knew he could see in distant future. 

Not exactly the future, because like past, the future  was also made of if of so many parts, 

in terms of  time, and in terms of events as well. 

And as he failed to recognize the past,  the people, and the events of the past,  just in the same way he failed again in recognizing the people, and the events that he could watch but couldn't connect a common cord through them.

After a very long time that was much harder to go through for his family, he could finally come to senses. The future started fading away and he could relate the life in now, in the present, in this very moment. 

He needed to recuperate.

And he had the urge, the help and the love of, and for his family that he was again his normal self. But like a child he had to learn the new regime and discipline of life from the very beginning.

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