And the words go on and on

Doing one thing uninterrupted for a prolonged period of time can be a difficult task. Personally, I have never really been able to do much of anything uninterrupted, regardless of the activity. On occasion I have been completely invested in an art project that I have allowed to just envelop my every action; but because of the intensity of my focus those projects haven’t lasted too terribly long. Anything that takes too long generally loses my interest anyways as I am always trying to find new mind-stimulating activities. So, when I was faced with the assignment in my ATEC 2322 class of reading uninterrupted for 40 minutes I shuddered at the sheer thought. It’s not that I haven’t been able to do that before, in fact on numerous occasions I have been so intoxicated by a good read that I wouldn’t put it down for hours upon hours on end, but it’s really difficult for me to just fall into something like that. Part of it is that the initial attempt to read is something that I always drag my mental heels through. The other part of it is that if I’m going in with an end in sight it is the only thing I can focus on. Unfortunately, I could do nothing to prevent these two blocks from occurring.

                When I began my assignment I looked at the clock to check my time and penciled down that I was allowed to stop reading at 9:56. That was bad choice number one. All I could do throughout my reading was to check the clock to see if time was up yet. Unfortunately the troubles began before that as even before the start of my reading assignment I must confess that I made a stupid choice of reading. I decided that I was going to read In Cold Blood. Now, this isn’t a bad read, in fact it was something I enjoyed, but I had read it before. This meant that the entire time I had even more reason to focus on the clock because none of the information I was reading was new information and therefore not mind stimulating. By the end of it I was honestly just excited to open up my computer and check out what was going on online.

                I feel like that’s how a lot of people today would react, and I’m not really advocating it. Honestly, I wish I could just do simple things like read without the technological word invading my life, but that’s the world we live in today. Hopefully I’ll be able to find something else that can anchor me into the real world and not dwell so much on internet world.