"stranded on the sofa like whales with a plankton's indigestion" -5minutefreewrite

For https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-88-5-minute-freewrite-monday-prompt-see-below

So many words to describe what it feels like when the floor is lava. The WHOLE FLOOR is flowing with lava. You thought it was a funny game when you were a kid, but these skills are REAL.

AND DANG. You're not as good as you were. When you were a child, you used to be able to leap from the sofa to the armchair and out into the kitchen, but now you are afraid. You will fall into the lava if you attempt such a feat. Youa re stranded on the sofa. No one can help you. You wave goodbye to your family, and you turn on the tv with the remote. Might as well watch the rest of Game of Thrones while you await your inevitable demise. At least you will know what happens.

Death is so sad. It's the end of learning. And you can't learn anything new. Even if the things you learned were trivial and useless, at least you learned them. All that dust of knowledge can accumulate into a rich fertile soil in which new ideas and ways to make the world a better place can grow, but once you are dead, buried in magma, you can no longer learn or teach...

Good bye joy of a child's smile. Good bye