to pay / crave attention - by kunkun - sincerely, kun

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It feels as though it is only when I am paying attention that I am truly alive — eyes wide open, awake to the kaleidoscopic unfoldings around me.

Like a tattered rag, my focus has been frayed lately. Eyes glued to the palm-sized screen, repeatedly scrolling and switching between the same applications for a disconcerting amount of time. The entire motion feels as though it was driven by an almost inexorable impulse. So I’ve begun to ponder about attention: how easy it is to lose attention, how human it is to yearn for attention. And yet, how life-giving it is to pay attention, and how liberating it is to let go of the need to receive attention. When I take a step back and recount all the things that I hope to do, I realized that all…

to pay / crave attention - by kunkun - sincerely, kun

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