A Mindless Exercise

(Halfway through the semester, our professor brings in a deck of cards with mindfulness exercises on them. He wants us to do one exercise at the beginning of every class, which each person leading an exercise at least once. He picks me to be the first one to do it for our next class, but because I have chronic memory problems and he doesn’t bring it up again, I forget. He approaches me on Friday.)

Professor: “Remind me… weren’t you supposed to do the mindfulness card on Wednesday?”

Me: “Yeah, I picked out a card, but you didn’t mention it in class and I forgot.”

Professor: *pause* “I’m going to be honest. I forgot. I’m going to forget about it every single day.”

(It seems neither of us are very mindful.)