What is the Focus?

It seems strange to start a blog without any idea what the focus of it is going to be. While it's not entirely true that this blog has no focus, the previous statement is still a good example of life. We go into life and reach several milestones with little to no focus for a long time. We are born with no focus, become teenagers with little focus, and usually don't really know what we're going to do until around age twenty. If the average life expectancy is about seventy-three years then, on average, humans go through more than a quarter of their lives with few ideas about what they will do with the other three quarters. Why is that? Why do we blindly follow a path that we don't know the destination of?

It makes sense that in developmental years we wouldn't choose our own path -- it's both unsafe and unwise to leave a developing mind to wander untethered into the cesspool of modern society. So the real question is why don't we do more to help those minds develop in a way that allows them to know their focus and thus have something to work for.

Ironically, I type this while completely distracted from what I'm saying, the white noise of the house punctuated by the anime my wife is watching right next to me. ADHD has a tendency to take my focus off the thing I'm trying to do and put it on something that I have no reason to focus on. In a restaurant, I hear a conversation between the family three tables over better than the person right in front of me. Focus is a funny thing. It can mean so many things. If this were a college paper, it would be horrible because there is no consistent thesis throughout. And because I've been ending sentences with prepositions, switching between first and third person, and I started this sentence with "And." Obviously I majored in English. But does that mean that's my focus? Does it mean I want to be a writer? Does it mean I want to teach English? Maybe. Maybe I don't know what I want, what my focus is, what this blog is about. But maybe someday I'll find out. For now, this blog is going to be a pouring out of thoughts as a way for me to practice writing. Not necessarily because I want to be a writer, but definitely because I want to be a better writer.