ARE WRITERS ABSENT-MINDED?
Anecdotal
evidence suggest that they are. Here’s what I managed to do today while
thinking about writing:- Headed to an exercise class at lunchtime but left my water bottle at work.
- Headed to the showers afterwards but left my towel in my car.
- Headed to my car to get my towel but left my security pass back in the office.
- Headed back to the showers but left my change of socks and jocks in my car.
It makes sense
though, right? Part of our mind is always in another world (or worlds),
necessarily subtracting from the amount of attention we can pay to the world
around us. Though sometimes our attention to this world can drop below the
acceptable minimum. J
Has this
been your experience? What silly things have you done while thinking about
writing?
G. K.
Chesterton was notoriously absent-minded, though he never saw it that way. I’ll
leave you with this thought of his:
“I am not
absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything
else.”
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