As I am going through my morning ablutions, I take every step without a single thought in my mind. I shower, I wash my hair, I brush my teeth, I shave, and I dry myself with a towel by focusing on what I am doing. And nothing else. Step by step, I pay full attention to whatever I am doing at the time. But I make sure not to read the names of so many products that press all around me in the bathroom: Elmex, Nivea, Garnier, Braun, Elemis, Perio-Aid, Oral-B, Johnson & Johnson… As I am going through my morning ablutions, I take every precaution not to look at any of these names. Every time I happen to cast my eye on any one of them, I pronounce it in my mind. But even pronouncing them amounts to a breach in my freedom from thought. And each and every breach of this ilk is nearly painful in the morning, before I manage to steel myself for all the idiocies of the world around me.