If you’re anything like me, you never seem to get nearly as much accomplished as you plan to. Invariably, many of the most important things in life get nudged aside by the more pressing issues which distract us on a daily basis. I spend my time “majoring in the minors” and squander countless precious days and hours on those things which have marginal eternal value. Are you there too, constantly servicing the squeaky wheel when you know that the engine is sorely in need of maintenance? Folks like us need to work on getting our priorities straight so we can focus on those things in life which matter most. The demons of distraction will ever be clawing at us from every side. Can you feel them tugging at you even now? We must find a way to brush past them and make progress towards our hopes and dreams and goals. Perhaps we need accountability partners to check in with during the course of each day. Whatever it takes, aim your heart at your priorities and go get them. You’ll be glad you did.
The Demons of Distraction
We are consumed by the minutia
Of details throughout each day
So that the time we mean to spend
On what matters most erodes away
All the lofty goals and purpose
We intend to glean from life
Seem to wither in the urgency
Of our daily stress and strife
So that when we reach an epilog
And gaze back upon our wake
We find we’ve sacrificed too much
Merely for convenience sake
With our loftiest ambitions
Strewn across the workroom floor
Cast before the swine of urgency
Their luster glimmers never more
We dare not let the demons
Of distraction drag us down
Into the quagmire of compromise
Where hopes and dreams can drown
We must stand our ground and fight
For what is meaningful and true
Lest we wake up to discover
We had not lived ‘ere life was through
By Frank Carpenter ©
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Eliot has a line in his Four Quartets that reads, "Distracted from distraction by distraction." I thought of it upon reading your poem. It was good meeting you tonight!
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