~English is weird.~
Traction. The grip that something has.
Distraction. Something that turns your attention away.
Dis. Prefix meaning "apart" or having a negative force.
My attention turns away regularly from what I should be focussed on. The world — moving, changing, influencing — around me. Reality has held a steady grip on me so far. Slips, near-misses, almosts, right-places-right-times (or the opposite, if I say it truthfully), little-to-the-lefts, and grazes never quiet leading to a slippery slope down, down,
d o w n.
So why do I lose Traction, stumble and stare down the cliff side, without so-called Distractions?
I sit too long staring, staring, staring,
t h i n k i n g.
As the carpet wrenches out from under me, I'm left scrambling in socks on hardwood running, running, running. Never escaping, tripping over and over again on myself.
These distractions give me traction. For they distract me from every reason for the erosion of the traction that isn't even truly there. They help me ignore the illusion
I've been f a l l i n g.
For how long I couldn't say,
It's nothing but empty air anyway.
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Idk how much sense this makes. Technically, if we ignore the definition of Distraction, according to English rules is means the loss of grip (which I guess still is it's definition, you lose grip on focus specifically) and it was sort of bothering me. Then this became a thing, I passed out for a cat nap, had the weirdest dream, and went for an hour drive. I need to wake up and be ready for a busy day in two hours so aha whoops.
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