About My Attention Span

Alright, cool. So, it's Sunday the 23rd of February 2025 and I need to do something about my attention span. You know what, there used to be a time, and unfortunately I'm old enough to say this, where I feel like people genuinely had a reason to fear and be socially anxious about

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certain social settings. Because there used to be a time when people didn't really have mobile phones or what they did have didn't put them in the position where they could stare at something long enough to go unnoticed.

Like when you got on a bus, you did kind of like have to look at people or run the risk of people looking at you because they had nothing else better to look at. And at that point, you had to carry yourself in a sociable manner. Whereas nowadays, you could get on a bus and go seemingly unnoticed and basically not fear anything at all. One of the things that again, kind of like brings to question, kind of like the whole definition and meaning and

even kind of like validity of social anxiety. But I'm saying all of this stuff to say that, you know what, like there used to be a time when, you know, I'm old enough to say that there used to be a time where I knew what the world looked like before mobile phones were distracting us enough that we wouldn't even notice the people that are sitting next to us. And kind of like when I started seeing that world change, you know, from kind of like the Nokia, you know, the Nokia phones, the little Nokia phones, the Sony Ericsson's, to like, you know, the

iPhones and the, you know, the BlackBerry's to eventually kind of like the phones and the screens that hold our attention today. You know, there used to be a time when I was actually protesting against it. I didn't recognize the world, you know, the world was changing, but I wasn't entirely certain if it was changing for the better. I started noticing a very massive disconnect and I started to recognize my phone and I started recognizing this thing as something that effectively threatened the quality of my life going forward. For some reason I ended up conforming to this notion

and I ended up accepting this reality as the new norm because whenever I piped up about it, apparently I was either thinking about it too deeply or I was basically making a fuss about something that really truthfully wasn't that important. But now when I look at my life, when I look at the things that I'm trying to do, like the focus that I'm trying to keep whenever I'm paying attention to a specific task, I recognize that I should have never ever backed down on my beliefs. I should have never ever thought that, okay, this is actually okay.

The technology that we hold within our hands has the power to turn us into a success just as much as it has the power to turn us into a mindless slave. I just want people to become aware of that going forward from now.