What is it about distraction?

It’s easy to name it as the problem:
a lack of focus,

a wandering mind,

too many inputs.

But distraction is rarely the starting point.

Disconnection comes first.

A subtle separation from what is in front of us.
From the task, the moment, the body, the reason we began.

Once that thread loosens, attention looks for something to hold.

And it will find it.

Not because we are weak,
but because attention does not like to drift without anchor.

Distraction is not failure.

It is a signal.

And the question is not how to eliminate distraction,
but where the connection has slipped.