I'm 47. I have a great memory for things that have happened in the past. Whether that's 5-10 minutes ago, to events, places and things that I can recall in magnificent detail up to and beyond 35 years ago. My memory is not quite eidetic, but it does scare the hell out of my partner and friends about how much detail I can recall about events from many years ago.
One thing I always struggle with is remembering events that I'm told about that will happen in the semi-near future. For example, future meetings, family events that kind of thing. Usually these events will occur 6-7+ days in the future when I'm told but I am dreadfully bad at remembering them, and this leads to some "friction" in my relationship.
I know I could write these things down, but many of these events are trivial (dog being photographed :/ ), and there's lots of them...I could run out of diary space, or just not remember to look up the diary because I'm not really a diary person in my personal life.
Is this normal? Does the brain separate "things to remember about the future" from "things I've experienced and are in the past"? Is my brain being selective here? Or am I just lazy and uncaring?
