Easily amused, easily distracted, easily bored

I don’t know if it’s a genetic or environmental, age or gender, hormone or nervous sort of a thing, but I am incredibly easily amused, distracted and driven to boredom. It’s not just me, I don’t think; I know plenty of other people who also appear to fit this description. However, it’s becoming more and more of an issue of late.

For example, I finished lectures and was home by about midday today, sat down to use this extra time to get some work done and, instead have sat here painting my nails whilst listening to music… for four hours… Don’t think it’s pure laziness (although it is a little - doing work is effort, especially as I barely slept last night); on several occasions I have attempted to start and then either gotten distracted by something – things that need tidying or cleaning or deciding I’m thirsty even though I’m not – or been completely unable to concentrate. I’ve decided it’d be more constructive to hit my head on the desk a couple of times…

It’s not just this slight inability to focus that hinders me; I get bored stupidly easily. I can be talking to someone online, writing a blog or notes on something and watching a film and still get bored. I’m beginning to wonder if this is one of the side effects being part of generation Xbox. People my age (which makes me sound old… I’m 19, I shouldn’t be able to say things like that) are so used to technology and the instant gratifications that come with it that we seem to be less capable of concentrating on things, particularly if the rewards for doing them are ones that will be seen in the long-term rather than instantaneously.

Saying all this, I’m also really easily amused. Simple objects like keys or paperclips or those little metal puzzles you sometimes get in Christmas crackers can entertain me for fairly long periods of time… it’s not healthy, is it? Makes me sound about 5 years old…

Bringing this back to some kind of journalism related theme (because I should really try to more often), the thing that has been getting me rather over-excited recently is my blog stats. Yeah, I’m still a little addicted… I am currently on 931 views, which I’m quite proud of. However, what’s amused me most is seeing that people have found my blog by googling things! It’s so amazing, I might explode! I mean, I’m on page 2 of google! Look:

So amazing!

Anyway, as I’m going home for the weekend, this is probably the last time I will have successfully completed the blog-a-day promise I made 7 posts ago, although I will try and write something over the weekend.

So, yeah… I will leave it there – until next time!