Why mind deceives us, and legs ,no?

I believe this is due to the differences between how episodic and procedural memories are stored in the brain. A person with a nonfunctioning hippocampus cannot form new episodic memories, but he can continue to form procedural memories. In most cases of anterograde amnesia, the person cannot recollect facts, but can remember how to do things, such as riding a bicycle. This suggests that episodic and procedural memories are stored in different parts of the brain. So, in answer to your question, procedural memory seems less prone to forgetting. Why this is, I haven't found out yet.

It can also be a case of huge numbers. What you say is right when it is purely physical and also intellectual. This is why we have to learn a lot when we are young. The young mind is impressionable and absorbs things faster and this stays with us longer too. We learn to walk, ride, swim, be athletic and these things are physical and become automatic even after years. Similarly when we learn things young, this stays with us and comes back even after losing touch. I could quote from ‘Julius Cesar’ after thirty years of losing touch the moment I read through it again. The words came back flooding. This was because I studied this in school. Such is the impression and power of young age. Now in relevance to the topic you have raised, meeting people is an ever happening thing and we interact with so many people on a daily basis. Will we ever forget the faces of our near and dear ones? But with others, constant touch and revisiting brings them back to mind. Even if you take the simple question of our my lot users, we would tend to remember our friends who interact with us on a more regular basis; there is a likelihood of others being forgotten. I feel that this might be because this part of our memory where we store interactions has limitations. Once I read that our memory is like an attic. Things keep getting stored but when new things come in, old ones have to be pushed out. Correlating this idea, I feel that reflexes and close emotional bonding are fixtures while interactions with a multitude of people and other experiences are just movable unless they get firmly fixed with reinforcement. Regarding some things that seem very important at particular periods of time, that is the way of life isn’t it? Imagine the extraordinary importance we gave to our school and friends at one point of time. With time priority changes and our minds cooperate in retentions and exclusions of important and unimportant events and experiences. Age plays traitor at times but we strive hard to get over it when we think things are extremely important and cannot afford to be forgotten.

The body can break down and so can the mind. But the mind has the power to deceive. Our legs will not fail us in times of need. The mind is powerful and has the ability to fool you or others for that matter. And that all depends on the level of intelligence. To be in physical shape one must exercise. The power is within everyone one of us. But without the mind all those body functions are useless.

It depends, because the bicycle riding thing you mentioned counts under your skills, while the other thing, meeting people for example, is an experience, not really a motor skill. It is a very interesting concept though. I mean why DO we remember some things and forget others? Good question.