Multitasking

it’s fun to listen to music while i clean and watch videos while i eat. but focus is so finite and hard to come by these days. i don’t think it does me any favours be unable to sit with a task without being stimulated by something else. yeah it’s efficient for sure. but i think it’s impressive to able to find— maybe not find enjoyment in, but to not see something like sweeping the floor as something that doesn’t deserve my full attention-- so not find enjoyment, but find value, in the menial, ordinary cogs of daily life. i want to sit with my oatmeal and i want to sit with my having to sort out burnable garbage from plastics. as i stir around the frozen berries i find myself grateful that i bought a second bag of the cereal milk protein powder since they’ve discontinued it for some reason. a misstep into the bag of aluminum cans from when i hosted some friends over a sunday or so ago. the single, emptied out jar of salmon flakes that i haven’t repurchased since learning how much better it is to just buy the whole fillets. there’s still many youtube videos i’d like to watch, but why not be able to take them in without also splashing ramen noodles onto my pre-historic macbook? maybe i wouldn’t even have noticed how there’s not a single cloud in the sky today!