Empty-mindedness: How one becomes and how it may feel

As one becomes older one becomes more-and-more empty-minded. To start, one begins to lose their appetite. So when somebody asks them whether they are hungry, they refuse. And even when one is, they do so simply because they cannot remember what they liked to eat...And as everybody knows--no one can think on an empty stomach!

If thinking on an empty stomach wasn't hard enough, how about trying to remember on an empty stomach? Waking up hungry in front of the television, one might not be able to recall how they got there! What's more, questions like "Did you remember to eat your breakfast?" begin to take one back to childhood. As it's said: it takes more thought to remember something than to make something up--it's not that we didn't forget to eat our breakfast, it's that we just didn't want to!

At this point, one might ask their self: "Why bother to remember this stuff?" To this, somebody replies: "To remember whether to serve you orange juice or coffee." Which one should reply: "Isn't that your job?" And then, silence...until one takes a sip and remembers "what it was like to drink this for the first time..." just before falling into a forgetful, empty-minded dream.