Forget Me Not

Are you the type of person who is kind of forgetful?

When was the last time that you freaked out because you forgot something very important?

Let me share with you first a tragic story of a person who forgets something very important that leads to his death.

“In 1988 Ivan Lester Maguire, 35 years old, an experienced skydiver and with more than 800 jumps of experience was preparing to do his job in his skydiving company.  In order to increase sales, the jumps of the clients would be recorded so the client would pay for the parachute jump and extra for the video recording. A brilliant idea but due to the expense everything have to be done only once. If for some reason the camera failed, for example not being charged or forgetting to put in a memory card, they would not be able to perform a second jump. Therefore Ivan Lester always checked once, twice and even three times that everything about the camera was all good on the plane.

While the instructor is giving the preparatory lessons for the jump to the client, Ivan would even check his camera one last time so that the filming would come out perfectly.  He would clean the lens and make sure it was loaded then put on goggles so he could see well.

When they reached the altitude of 12, 000 feet, Maguire jumped from the back of a plane to film the client and instructor who jumped from the front of the plane. Everything was going according to plan. The instructor pulled the parachute ripcord and they both rose while Ivan took one last shot with their parachute open.

When the shot was ready, Ivan took his hand to the metal ripcord to open his parachute too. But to his surprise, his ripcord wasn't there. Ivan indeed has something on his back but it was not the parachute. Instead it was the backpack with camera stuff inside. It was only that he realized when already being in the air he had been so preoccupied with the camera that he had forgotten the most important thing – his parachute.”

According to reports, Maguire was an expert jumper. The reason for him forgetting his parachute was that he was so preoccupied with his video equipment. He has been working a lot when it comes to his video photography.

Sometimes our friends would tease us when we tend to forget something. They would say it's like a sign of aging or that we should drink milk that would boost our memory.

I have been experiencing a lot of forgetfulness. The most recent was driving without a license because I forgot to put it in my pocket. Good thing no bad circumstance happened so I was able to drive back home with no license. However I was nervous enough because traffic enforcers here in our area are kind of strict. Besides they have posts in almost every where adding to the checkpoints due to the approaching presidential election.

Sometimes we are so preoccupied with something that we forget the most important thing just like what had happened with Ivan Maguire.

It’s funny when you have already secured everything, even checking it for more than three times but then there is still something missing. Something left out and the most shocking is that the thing missing is the most important one.

Sometimes my wife would tell me that I am like a broken record when I tend to reiterate reminders with her. This is because I don’t want to forget things or miss important things. But still no matter how hard we try to secure things before we go, we still forget important stuff to put in our backpack.

Are you a forgetful person? Share your views in the comment below. I would love to read it. 

Thanks for reading. Ciao!

Lead image source credits to Dominik Scythe

Resource: https://apnews.com/article/ad6734fd502c80db0d71695b53605229