it's another one of these horoscope-universal things, and i wonder if it can be applied in reverse -- if i can figure out what's (unconsciously) important to me by what i (unconsciously) remember well. i've never remembered math well -- i remember numbers well, but not actual theorems of mathematics, and that seems to be rather spot-on: the stuff i care about is the playing with numbers, and not so much the deep or hard stuff. i do easy math.
i wonder if as math becomes important to me, i'll get a better memory for it. it's hard to distinguish, i guess, from simply getting a better memory through repetition. maybe that's why people get more vocational as they get older: they assume because they're remembering things through repetition that those things are important to them. maybe it becomes harder to get that stuff out of your mind, which forces you to assume it's important or else go crazy.
not that i'm sure my thesis is correct -- i'm not at all sure that people get more vocational as they get older. maybe what's really going on is that people get more conformist as they grow older, because they start to remember the stuff that societal repetition bores into them more and more. right now through randomness i've been exposed to some offbeat things as much as some societal things, so i'm more offbeat, but as time goes on the law of averages will kick in and my interests, thoughts, and priorities will start regressing towards the mean.