I have noticed over the years that young men have reactionary thinking. What I mean by this is that we, the males, are not thinking about anything in particular until something strikes us, either visually or physically. I know I have always been looking for something to think about or something to write, but when I look at girls, women, or the female gender in particular, it seems that they are constantly thinking about how to manipulate, or how to get what they want. Young men, on the other hand, wait till they see something they want and then try to get it. It's not that we don't think in those terms, it's just that we have to have motivation to think. It's like going to the beach, a guy just makes sure he's got his swim trunks and the girls, they pack beach blankets, umbrellas and sunscreen because they thought about what they needed beforehand. Us, the guys, we either do without or get it once we get there.

When I was a young man, I was programmed in that very way. Didn't think much about anything until something struck me. I can remember to this day my mother asking me, “what are you thinking about young man” and I would reply truthfully, “nothing”. She would always ask again, “you have to be thinking about something, what are you thinking about”.  That's why mothers usually get some really stupid answer because we really were thinking about nothing. It's almost like we're saving our minds for something special, or maybe it's just it takes a lot of effort to think. When you get us going though we do relatively well. I know when I would go to bed at night, I would think of anything in the world to keep from sleeping, how many men actually live in the moon, if a train left Chicago at 1:00 and a train left New York at 2:00 would they meet, oh, and would they be on separate tracks.

Have you ever seen a couple of guys talking about something, nothing in particular, just anything? Take for instance one guy asks the other guy “what do you think of Kathleen?” The other guy replies “pretty” and the first guy goes, “yep”, and they sit there for hours saying nothing, just fishing and you want to know what they're thinking about. I will tell you the truth. You won't believe it, nothing!

Even take two scientists looking at a board full of mathematics on what it takes to make up a black hole. One scientist says to the other, “I think we're close”, the other one says “yep” and they stare at the board for two hours and you know what they’re thinking about, nothing!So girls, you remember back when the first guy took you to the movie theater and it was one of those movies that wasn't very interesting and you thought, “I wish he would kiss me” and he never did.

He just continually stared at the screen and you got so mad trying to figure out what in the world he was thinking, you guessed it, nothing.
Even taking you home from that date, and you're walking back home and a pretty girl walks in front of you and you notice his head turns to follow her and you slap him and you're thinking, what's he thinking about, he's with me. Yep, even this time he was thinking about nothing.

 I just want to clarify the situation. Now that I'm older and wiser, when I'm sitting for hours watching TV and my wife looks over at me and asks that dreaded question every man has to answer, “have you been listening to me, what were you thinking about all this time?” Even though my thinking has not slowed down much with old age, I have to tell her that “no, I wasn't listening to you”, and as far as what I was thinking about, even though I know I'm going to get in trouble, I tell her the truth, I tell her, “nothing at all”. And my wife looks at me with that look and says, “I know what you’re thinking about, it’s what you men think about all the time”, and she’s right, it’s nothing.