Maybe I should start
by saying, I typed the title to this piece 3 days ago. This is the first time I
am even coming back to it.
So lets say, it’s a given.
I am easily distracted. Firstly, I think that if I had to be tested, I would be
highly ADD. In my days, you were just naughty. But having a son who is
extremely ADHD, and has been since he was 2, and walked the entire path with
him, I know what this means. I know what this involves and what to look for. And
yes, Hayley most definitely has ADD.
So what distracts me? I
think the answer is, everything. Running a business, and being a grown human in
2021, in the middle on a pandemic, especially in South Africa, there are
distractions around every corner.
1)
My phone –
oh look a whatsapp! Oh its on the group. Who is this person that responded? Let
me see their profile picture? Oh I have been there, I am sure that’s in Durban?
Wow I wonder what flights to Durban cost these days? Flights – are they even
operating? What happened with SAA? Let me do some research? Annnnddd before you
know it, half an hour has passed by
2)
Social media
– in any form. Oh look an email advising that somebody liked my post? I wonder
what post that was? Let me check? Oh thattttt post. It was funny hey. Oh Sandra
shared it. I wonder what happened with Sandras boyfriend I know that they were
fighting – let me check her relationship status. Oh wowwwwww it says single. I wonder
what Johns says? Oh my word. Still says relationship, I wonder if anybody else
has seen this. Mari, have you seeeeeennnn Sandras relationship status on FB? And
another half an hour of rabbit holes.
3)
My pets. I
wake up in the morning with every intention of exercising, putting a perfect
makeup face on, doing some meditation, anddddddddd BAM! One of my pets will
come up to me for a love. And I will end up on the floor with a lap full of
doggies, and then decide to brush them, or take some cute photos of them, and
thirty minutes later they have enacted a whole play complete with outfits and
props
4)
Reading. When
I was a little girl, we only had one bathroom, and I would sneak my book into the
toilet with me and spend hours in another world. Or go into the garden and get
lost in the Magic Faraway Tree. Or climb into a bath and spend the next sixty
minutes with the Famous Five. And it’s a habit that’s never left. Except now I can
take my book into my bath WITH WINE!
5)
I think
lastly, one of my biggest distractions is moving furniture. Yes, I said it out
loud in front of everybody. Moving furniture is my absolute drug of choice. Whenever
I get very, or even slightly, anxious or worried, I move furniture. From large
to small. From entire walls, to paintings and mirrors. I have always been told
that I could never have a blind boyfriend because he would come home one day
and not be able to find his way into the house. It’s the OCD in me that finds a
way to escape, but moving furniture, and cleaning is my last and final big distraction
I think if we all sit
and make a list, we will see just how much more we could do with our lives. But
then, how much would we miss out on?
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