I am actively forgetting.

i get invited places and shake my head. I can't, i say, I have to forget for a few hours today. At first i needed help, for instance by learning things that make no sense to learn. The rate of acceleration due to gravity will not help me eat or reproduce. Well, it might help me reproduce. Some girls are into that. Then, I started getting paid to forget by learning how to do things that make no sense to do. Knowing how to fill a bag of popcorn promptly has a very slim chance of saving me from a bear attack. Bears are very effective predators but wildly ineffective maters. Forgetting comes naturally to them. Lucky us.

i try to remember what is poison and i can't. i try to remember what girls think is interesting, again i can't. i have forgotten it by heart.