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Attention spans

I don't think social media or the internet are responsible for my skittish attention. It's being a parent. The constant needs of a child interrupt everything. Even though my daughter goes to school, I find myself switching from one thing to another as though she's around.  The concentration of meditation can help one defrag their brain. Unlimited input, surfing the net, input all the time. I used to be a person who turned off TVs, but now I feel OK with them on all the time. Input input input. I love taking baths and reading. I'm not going to drag my computer into the bathroom and I don't feel comfortable using my phone in the bath. A book can even be dropped, I've dropped a book into the bath before. You can dry it out, but it expands, so it's pretty much dead unless it's the last book on earth and then you'd preserve it.  I've seen so much apocalyptic fiction that I imagine things from that perspective, like I can flip with other kinds of persp...