No distractions please, I think to myself as I take a deep breath and sigh it slowly out. The keyboard is here, the blank screen is patiently staring back at me, waiting for our conversation to begin. And as the thoughts begin to shape in my mind, my fingers touch the keyboards, like runners at the starting line, waiting for the word GO.
Distraction #1
Then Zen Master meanders into my room then, coughing his habitual dry cough. A cough that he says is just an itch in his dry throat and is the reason for him having to drink tons of water. He believes it’s because of all the medication that he takes that cause this itch. And you know what, I believe him.
He’s holding our wooden back scratcher, and he needs help with an itch that the back scratcher couldn’t reach. I stand up and scratch his itch, and he’s like a cat sighing with relief. Then I gently usher him out the room, and settle back at my desk, the blank screen stilling waiting.
Letting out another sigh, I remembered my original thought and grabbed hold of it once more before it escaped. I feel the quiet as I start writing, watching as the words flow out of my fingers and finally on to the screen. I know what I want to say, and I work on getting out my thoughts first before starting any edits.
Just let it all out.
Distraction #2
Then Zen Mum walks into the room, her cellphone perpetually clutched in her hand. She holds it up in front of me, a look of frustration on her round face. “Something’s wrong with my phone. I can’t open up Candy Crush.”
And just like that, the impressive thought that was just hovering in the forefront of my consciousness flew away. I looked at her pink cellphone and see a blank screen where Candy Crush should actually be.
“Maybe they took away Candy Crush.” I said as I looked at her. “Maybe there’s no more Candy Crush.”
Zen Mum shoves the phone into my hands. “Fix it. I’ll go watch NetFlix.”
Fifteen minutes later, as Zen Mum is happily playing Candy Crush on the couch, and somehow simultaneously watching her movie, I settle back at my laptop and just stared at what I had just written.
And nothing.
Sighing, I get up once more to get coffee.
