Attention Deficient - Who does not have it?

 Attention is something anyone should have when it comes to focusing and learning anything in life. I am going to share an experience I just had and decided to share what enlightenment I just got to the terminology or tagging one a ADD or attention deficit disorder. 


I was trying to read a couple of pages from a spiritual text, normally very insightfull areas need more understanding and repeated readings, however this one is a story like chapter ideally easy to read and relate. The TV was on with songs i dont prefer, the road was buzzing with traffic honking of vehicles, somenes watsap was playing some forward, technically i have been able to focus on reading despite all these sounds. But what happened just now?


I could not read one short passage, i was reading and re-reading. It was my mind, it was running with multiple things from within that i could not focus or give attention to reading. IT was nothing from the outside. I was thinking of what was my next series i wanted to host, a flow of ideas where coming in, mind was talking and flowing wiht myltiple thoughts on various things at the same time. ONe side excitement about the flow of ideas and other side was already planing and orngisning how it wanted to get this all into a flow state. 


Then i paused, i closed the book, i could not read it for past 15 mins trying to read that one passage. I realized one key thing, why tag kids alone as ADD? why name call them for life? Why tag anyone that? DONT We all do this, sometimes we loose our attention, our focus, our minds are on something else, our interest in somewhere lese. WHen i am least interested or i find something challenging what is the point in calling someone attention deficit? WHen i have it myself? Each one has a specific span to give attention, some of us learn one skill in a flash of a second, some of us however important it is may take months to learn it. So what? How can i gain the persons attention? Only when the mind is free.


when i am myself trying to understand all this after 4 plus decades of my life, expecting a child to understand or any theoretical book to give solutions is going to be a tough call.


Think, its easy to say play way method to gain attention, my way of playing and having fun would differ from your way of having fun. Lets discuss that in the next segment. about fun and learning. But for now, lets say attention deficit is inbuilt in each of us, to catch that attention means 

1. the person should be able to understand what one is saying unto him or her to listen and grasp, so mode of communication is key and 

2. inbuilt interest on a topic will ensure one will be easily attracted, when easily attracted attention and focus is bang on When attention and focus comes in automatically interest to learn and grow picks up. 

best wishes to u and me, to focus in such attention deficit era of life and lots of distractions and distortions around us.

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