EASILY CAPTIVATED THROUGH THE DISTRACTIONS
I highly respect individuals Emmanuel Cobbinah who value and practice the power of solitude combined with silence. These individuals are mentally free (but not always) from this today’s world that is full of almost inescapable distractions.
Most of these distractions aren’t really necessary and they just exist to generate huge sums of revenue; profit. And there’s nothing wrong with that, we often use them in the wrong way. And the majority of these fucking distractions aren’t boring, they are entertaining, super exciting, and make things seem effortless to handle while being comfortable as well (sure, they do make us comfortable. But that’s not advantageous).
What is so sad about utilizing such devices and bragging about how advanced our technological world is and that our fucking lives are improving very quickly is that they draw too much of our attention than we think, without us even realizing it. They steal and consume our most valuable and irreplicable tool to respect; that is TIME.
As entertaining these bullshit distractions as they are, they disconnect us from various life experiences. So I saw a quote when I was randomly browsing one of my social media platforms, it says, “Internet brings me closer to the world but further from life.”
We allow them to control us, to drive our attention, and yet most of us claim that we have full control of our lives. Yes, that is definitely true, we do have full control of our lives but we do not control it fully. There is a quote from a documentary called The Social Dilemma by Tristan Harris, the former design ethicist of Google, that says, “if you don’t pay for the product, then you are the product.” I’m still thinking about it, think about it too.
What I often hear from people is that they confidently and constantly say that we lack focus, which is true in some cases, but in most cases, it is fucking not! We don’t usually lack focus, we often lack focus direction. We tend to find it strenuous to shift our concentration, and we end up overly concentrating on what is noncrucial and ineluctable.
We also tend to ignore, avoid and neglect those distractions by utilizing other distractions as well. Okay, Mbatha, what do you mean about that? Well, we don’t want to be distracted when we are doing something or going somewhere else, so we set up and shift our attention toward the distractions that will block the other ones which we do not want or like at that moment.
For instance, let’s say you want to fall asleep immediately because you’ve done all your daily tasks and you’re tired as well, but you can’t because at home the kids are noisy or you’re living near a busy street so it’s disturbing you quite a lot (you’re distracted). So you decide to put your headphones on and play your favorite music to fall asleep so that you don’t get distracted by the background noise (you’re using another distraction).
Consequently, this also becomes a habit that every time when you want to fall asleep you exert another distraction to obstruct others. Frequently doing it form a habit that makes you need it when performing something. It may be a fucking good thing for that moment because you can’t really operate well. But it isn’t really good for you when you’ve trained your brain to malfunction without it.
There are quantities of things that we do that makes us captivated through the distractions that we, mostly, don’t even notice. What we need to do is to don’t let them control us, but we must control them in a positive and advantageous manner. Period. If it is the one that keeps you remain in the same position without any fucking vital benefit, get rid of it and change it right now!
