Short attention span
If I ever used to doubt myself about having short attention span, I think that doubt is beginning to clear out which each day that passes by.
A couple of days ago, I was having a conversation about movies with a lady friend of mine and she was telling me about how much movies she sees in a day. She said she has a lot of movies on her phone that she uses to keep herself company whenever she was bored at home or in school and I literally was envying her because unlike her, I'm the complete opposite.
You see, I'm a lover of great films but I have this problem whenever I'm seeing a movie (especially when it's just me), I tend to always get carried away by other things and before you know it, I've turned off the movie and doing something entirely different, sometimes I just turn it off and do nothing. In most cases, how this usually happens is that when I'm seeing a movie and then I see something that I haven't seen before, let say the character uses a word that's strange to me, I would pause the movie and head straight to Google to find out the meaning of that word.
And then the moment I'm done finding the meaning, instead of me going back to the movie, I would open my WhatsApp to check if I have any pending messages that I haven't replied to, then I go view some WhatsApp status and then I head straight to tiktok, my mind no longer interested in continuing the movie.
What's even more annoying is that sometimes, while I'm at the middle of a movie, in a scene where something interesting is about to happen, I would pause the movie just before it happens and go sit outside alone doing absolutely nothing. I sit there for a while and get extremely bored, then I pick up my phone and either go to X (FKA twitter) or tiktok and go spend a crazy amount of time there (most especially on tiktok).
Speaking of tiktok, that was probably the app which confirmed my short attention span theory because I found out that the reason why I enjoy being there is because the videos are short and not the same kind of videos, unlike movies that are two hours long and get tiring for me.
Now this whole thing doesn't just apply to movies, it spreads far and wide into my day to day life, I only used the movies to explain because I felt that would be easier to understand. Anyways, is there a way to deal with this thing (maybe some kind of brain exercise I can do, I don't know) or do I just have to live with it for the rest of my life and just pray it goes away someday?
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😅. You can't just pray it away.
You'd have to consciously make the effort to sit still and focus on doing something and finishing that thing. If done often, your brain should adapt to the change.
It worked for me.
Well I guess I will give it a try then.
Do that.
It's just like that, people who are soft hearted are just like that, whenever there's an emotional scene in a movie, they cry and then they have to watch another movie or else the whole day is over. Sadness passes.
Thank you for reading.