Life is a never ending cacophony of events that are designed to stymie us. We sit, surrounded by half a billion pieces of information; angles and lines, sounds and smells. A lack of focus provides us with a deluge of distractions. The distractions keep us reeling from event to event, like a drunken sailor going from bar to bar. The focus runs away from us like the proverbial monkey. The further from it the easier to slide further and further in an infinite loop of cause and effect… until finally, we find ourselves deep in an abyss of chaos, wallowing in the petty distractions of life instead of focusing upon that which makes life worth living in the first place. Since the first glob of goo picked itself out of the primordial masses and shouted to the sky, “I AM!” we have constantly accelerated our lives and our distractions. Is it any wonder our divorce rate is so high? Or that our caring is spread so thin? Or even that our children grow up with so little time to be children… Our entire society is on fast forward so we don’t have to see what is around us. Focus becomes an energy drink, clarity becomes about nasal medicine, and life becomes a board game full of random events and setbacks. What is the solution? Don’t ask me man, I am too busy chasing the monkey. ~Matt ©2006, Wilson Ernst Enterprises. All rights reserved.