Daydreaming and idleness make me happy. But what I recently realized so clearly that it´s worth nothing, if in addition you don´t also have focus and challenge. Regaining my focus felt as satisfying as daydreaming. We live in a time with so much distraction. My brain sometimes feels like a timeline. Shreds of information bustle about. It confuses me, yet my brain seems to want more. The line between curiosity and addiction seems to get blurred.
Distract before you have to occupy yourself with the heavy food that are your life questions. Fill the void.
Minutes pass like seconds, hours are gone like minutes while wasting your time with useless distraction. It feels like losing control of yourself, being sucked into a whirlpool. Time slipping away faster and faster. And your talents too. And it scares me to feel that so much time is wasted. Because how much of it is left after all? We need little successes, achievements, growth in order to have those happy moments. And they are not happening without focus and stamina. Maybe what I thought was to be daydreaming was actually just giving away my time.
Maybe my daydreams started to be more and more controlled by what was around me and not inside. Because even art these days is often so manipulative.
What is sold to us as “being authentic” in reality often comes with a big marketing machinery or political ideologies in the background. Maybe the real daydreaming starts when you start to really focus, get rid of too many distractions and when you face that void, gain control over your time again, over your own thoughts and instead of being just a passive consumer all the time, fill much of your time with making, creating, learning and discovering old or new talents.
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words by Sigrun
