DISTRACTION.

What is a distraction? What does it mean to be distracted?. 

Well, you can look it up in the dictionary. 

I love the simple definition by Mr Nuel. 

"Knowing what you want and that what you are doing will not lead you there yet doing it regardless is distraction". Mr Nuel. 

For instance, you want a score of like 300+ in jamb, yet you waste precious time playing with your mobile phone. In this case you are not oblivious of your problem, because even while knowing that spending so much time playing with your phone rather than studying to get what you want is not going to give you what you want, you keep doing it anyway. 

Most often we find ourselves doing the opposite in relation to what we ought to do so as to get what we want. 

Distraction can also be in form of inability to do according to design. Everything you want has a designated path to attaining it, so when you neglect this designated path way and follow another path you are already distracted and won't be able to get what you want. 

Distraction isn't the absence of "Doing". Another form it can assume is unnecessary doing. Imagine running a marathon at full speed yet can't seem to reach the finish line only to discover you were running in the opposite direction. Why didn't you reach the finish line? You definitely put in so much effort but you lacked knowledge of direction. 

In our present world, it is so easy to be distracted given the tons of available distractions; it takes God's grace, intentionality, searching out design and seeking help to stay focused. 

I watched a TeDx show sometime ago and the speaker (A blind man) said and I quote "Human's greatest distraction is the gift of sight" "To be focused is to be blind to all else". 

Dearest reader, I hope you found this piece helpful. 

@favvy_Okwans🖤.