Numbers

Source: x0ir@deviantart

I was on a fanfic and some details brought me back the question that I've had for such a very long time. Back to the past, since I had no idea about the answer, I just gave it up, pretended that I really forgot it. Actually it still stings whenever I've encountered the situation. Ok, the problem is...

Everybody knows that I have big trouble with numbers. I sometimes can not even remember the address number of some friends which are actually three or four digits. Sometimes I remember the digits but I can't put them in the correct position. I remember some home phone numbers (my family's, my grandmother's, some of closest friends which are actually about 10 years old) but they're all 6 then turned 7 digits. However, since most of people I've known have cellphones, I have never remembered anyones' cellphone number. Do not count mine and my little brother's since it's his birthday and the truth is I sometimes forget the 4 first digits of his number. It is said that once you call a number so many times, you'll remember it (kind of "learn by heart" as we did when we was in primary school). And I found that the situation was not right with me too. In the past, when I worked as an assistant, I made my boss at least 10 phone calls a day, not by the system memory but pressed each digit time after time and I did not remember his number. Every morning I had to check the number again from the memory book and I had to recheck it many times on the day once I needed calling him again.

I have a friend who is working in banking and she has a splendid memory (in common). She doesn't really remember all friends' numbers but she keeps it somehow sort and she can easily pick them out from all kinds of memories. Of course she remembers my cellphone (and home phone, surely) number. Th, who is really a bad-memory girl (does not remember some of closest friends' birthdays and nobody has claimed her anymore for that since a long time ago), even remembers my cellphone number. K once lost his cellphone again and again and again but he somehow had a way conduct his memory for my number. He explained it was based on the fact that someone who was living with him had the number a lot like mine. The guy in the highland lost his cellphone several times too and he always had his way calling me back.

On the fanfic I mentioned at the start, B character lost his memory for amnesia and he could not find his lover's (actually the one all his friends considered his lover) number anywhere in his reach once he needed it. And he asked his friends for the number, saved it on his cellphone and even wrote it down on the note. After that, when his memory returned, he deleted them all, burned the note and hardly understood how he once could do such a sentimental thing like that.

See? I really have no clue for my situation. Is it a brain/memory problem that I cannot remember anyone's number? Or it just I don't REALLY want to remember? (I mean "really", by heart). How about you guys? All comments on this problem are welcome.