2021/8/27 #poetry How can sitting in front of a computer screen all day make you feel like you've run a marathon? I'm sure I didn't run at all, pretty much just sitting mostly. I don't have the first clue as to what could be so exhausting about that. I haven't heard anyone talking about how concentrating too much can kill you. Perhaps I just wasn't listening though. There's hope, I can nap, sleep, rest, rejuvenate and get back to what I was so busy with. Live to run another day. Sit-run. Just sit. Sit and look at a screen. Pretty screen. Lots and lots of colored lights. Millions actually. And each one tells a story. Well, together they tell a story. Story after story after story. After story. More stories to come too. Millions of them actually. It's not hard to see why so many people stare at these screens for so much of their short uncomfortable lives. There are better things for me to do, I know. I do them sometimes too. I do. I do I do. But, you see, the screen is easier to get to. Easier to focus on for long enough that my day goes by and I can enjoy the satisfaction of having it over and done with. Most days are wonderful, full of interesting and enticing things to learn and see. That could be part of the problem, if I'm not presented with something interesting then I'm apt to go looking for one and the fastest way to find one is to turn on a screen. Bam, instant distraction from any manner of life problem. Vision problems excepted. Also headaches. I've heard those can be aggravated by light and noise. But for everything else there's a specific pattern of blinking pixels that can be guaranteed to distract from that specific problem. Even the problem of feeling like you've been staring at a screen for too long.