Focus

Me thinks I lost mine - -

It's amazing how things are planned now. It used to be that focus was usually discovered and used by the individual to accomplish some task. Now everyone and their dog wants to give you something more to focus on. To change the shift and tilt of the stars in their orbits above if you let them. Maybe that's why games are so fitting in this life - - it allows for a sense of control when we feel that there is none.

Technology I admit is partly to blame. . . hell it took days, weeks, even months to get information from point A to point B, now it's minutes - no seconds. I also put politics and the media in this messed up group - as the politicians are trying to get me to buy their story and deny the other guy, while hiding their own mess in the process, all while the media picks a horse to beat to death while denying the mess even exists (of course this depends on the whole friend v. foe and the use of mountain v. mole hill).

In the end though we all find ourselves down the rabbit hole anyway. . . like Alice.

`Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from
here?' Alice speaks to Cheshire Cat

`That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the
Cat.

`I don't much care where--' said Alice.

`Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.

`--so long as I get somewhere,' Alice added as an explanation.

`Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, `if you only walk
long enough.'

From Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carol

The scary thing is how often these things either a) don't make sense, b) contradict previous items you were given to focus on, c) the focus is quickly shifted leaving a sense of hurried incompleteness, or d) all of the above.

In the end though we still have more control than we admit. But with that control comes responsibility - and that is more than many of us want. The fear though is that if one loses all control, all focus we become something less than we were - something less than we were meant to be - that we become lost. . .

Until we find that Sticking Spot that forces us to move, and change again.