Maintaining Focus Feels Impossible

It sucks.

In my ideal world, I’d be spending my time listening to goofy podcasts about sports and pop culture, building LEGO sets, playing video games, and doing all of it while hanging out with my family.

I don’t need a whole lot more in life. I mean, sure I want new toys, and new content to consume and talk to my wife and friends about, and be able to supply my kids with a life that is both fulfilling and fun, while also having a few challenges here and there just to keep life interesting.

I’m not a true crime person, and don’t really want to know about the horrible things that humans do to each other, I’d really rather just live in my little bubble of happiness and contentment and chill.

Simply put, my philosophy on life is summed up in Office Space, when asked what he would do if he had enough money to do anything, our protagonist Peter says something along the lines of “I’d do nothing”. And that’s what I would love to do. Just do… nothing. Nothing of value to society, nothing to change the world, nothing to make things different, I’d just… exist and enjoy the existing.

But, I don’t live in an ideal world. And neither do you. And we get to see the evidence of it on whatever size screen we’re looking at every day, and in some cases, people get to see it up close as the horrors of our world are thrust upon them.

And so, it feels disingenuous to just go about writing a blog about work.

Which is why this isn’t going to just be a blog about work today (I’ll launder some stuff in though don’t worry), it’s going to be about the difficulties we all face maintaining our focus and balance in this weird world and why we can’t be callous ghouls even when it’s easier than admitting that society, and by extension all of us, are simply not ok.