This is the main dish for dinner today. Pork cooked with cabbage seasoned with chicken carcass and sake. Cabbage in winter tastes sweet since it has gone through the chillness. We have already run out cabbage grown in the farm. Unfortunately, this is a vegetable sold at a super market. Still very good.
It was the day for me to take a test of cognitive function to renew the driver's license in the upcoming May. Those aged older than 74 years are, as the police determined recently, ought to do that.
Cognitive function ranges vast areas as you know. The test they have adopted among various function tests is regarding long term memory. A set of 4 pictures unrelated each other are shown to us for certain, rather short, time. We are supposed to memorize all of them. Four sets of picture panels are shown to us. In summary, we should remember 16 pictures of itmes. Yes, it is beyond short term memory handled by working memory. The police publishes 4 groups of sets, that is, 64 pictures in total, prior to the test in the internet. We, testees, should prepare memorizing all of them before taking the test. Only one set will be used for the test. I was almost exhausted to prepare for that. At age 74 years, it is really tough to remember those names of items on 64 pictures without any logic.
I don't believe it would help us to avoid traffic accidents even if it could rule out some people with dementia. The facilities responsible for this tests are organizations where retired bureaucrats are parachuted from the police office. The facilities are to educate and examine those who would have the driver's license. Since the population in our country is decreasing drastically for now, they might have less profits from their businesses.
I agree those with dementia could cause traffic accidents. Those with latent dementia or cognitive disorderes of any kind should be excluded from driver's licensees. But this long term memory test would be of little meaning in that respect. It is a matter of serious problem in life if one could go on driving a car or not, especially if the person lives in a country side like here. If this scheme is made for those parachuted bureaucrats, it should be totally dispised.
There are the same kind of corruptive system in our society, I am afraid. As already reiterated in this blog, ham radio licensing system is not an exception in our country. I am afraid this curruption should be a reason why our country won't grow in industry/economy.
Well, another thing I thought about from this experience is that I am getting weaker and losing capabilities I could hold in young days. It won't be too long before I should give them up from one to another soon. In elderly, I should admit we lose our capabilities quite soon. How to replace or compensate them to the other ways is a question laid before me. Still hopeful for the good things left in the rest of my life. Reality is, however, cruelly progressing. Stay prepared myself.
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