Initially, I thought I knew what I was going to write for this blog post. I was going to talk about how people get distracted through observing others and what they’re doing. This was inspired mostly by the millions of blog posts on how the blog post writers espy people on their phones in public.  However, I got stuck on this idea about what distraction means…It means you are becoming unfocused. Dictionaries describe it as “an extreme agitation of the mind or emotions” or a “diversion”. So backtracking to the phone peeping authors, are these authors witnessing distractions..? Yes and no. That’s a little too subjective to what the situation could consist of. I started to think about how these authors are so focused on trying to get a story about how society is so disconnected and anti-social. I wondered if these authors would look even closer into peoples’ phones and maybe get distracted from their work. They could see that this person is looking at photos of their family members or playing a game to kill time. Maybe the authors get infatuated with the person’s attractiveness, or they see that the person has been biting their nails. I find this to be the inception of distractions. Inception, as in like the movie inception where Leo is just going to a dream within a dream within a dream, etc. And how inception means the start of something. The inception of distractions is started from people trying to stay focused, getting their work done and then any little meticulous thing will be start the distraction. I feel as if in this class we have given distractions a negative connotation. But the inception of distractions can be good or bad.  Humans have the free will to be curious, and most importantly to think. If we were able to read each others heads we would probably all say What The Fuck. I feel like distractions play a role in how we shape ideas, thoughts, even other realizations. I mean why do people say “Focus” rather than “Don’t Focus”, it’s because we’re inclined to do so.