Focus

Focus

I’ve gotten up and down three times since I started to compose this post.  Isn’t meditation supposed to help me with focus?  Or maybe without it, I would have gotten up six times by now, scrolled a little, and washed my hair. I’m going with that theory.

There’s a lot competing for our attention these days, a lot of noise for even the most focused of us to contend with.  One of my favorite writers on the subject is Tim Wu, the author of “The Attention Merchants”, a long but engrossing account of the forces that are designed to make us look where they want us to look.  Add to that the many studies showing our attention spans are measurably decreasing.  So, really, isn’t it a triumph to just be able to sit still for a bit?  And maybe tomorrow a bit longer?