We've all been there. You're telling a great story, trying to explain something in class or to our parents. As you begin, you feel good and confident about what you're saying; you're getting your point across and making good eye contact. All of a sudden, you stop. Your mind begins to forget the flow, your tongue is in mid-sentence, your mouth begins to dry up, your eyes begin to shift left and right in disbelief, and your heart starts to beat faster. Oh no, you forgot what you were saying! How did this happen? How do you recover from this?

You stand there looking up to the heavens for the ability to speak.

Your mind begins to distract you with nonsense.

You can feel it at the tip of your tongue, but you just can't say it.

You snap you fingers, say the alphabet a hundred times, jump up and down, or do something to get your brain to actually work and remember something very important!

You get so annoyed with yourself you begin to get distracted with scolding yourself ...

... because you are a genius and you know this!

You realize everyone is looking at you weird, waiting for you to finish.

Or they try to help out and they make the task even harder!

When you finally figure it out, you are so relieved.

Then everyone laughs ...

... and now you’re back to scolding yourself because you can’t believe you forgot a word like that!