Mind collectively refers to the aspects of intellect and consciousness manifested as combinations of thought, perception, memory, emotion, will and imagination; mind is the stream of consciousness. It includes all of the brain’s conscious processes. This denotation sometimes includes, in certain contexts, the working of the human unconscious or the conscious thoughts of animals. “Mind” is often used to refer especially to the thought processes of reason.

Even after holding such a complex definition to it, why is it that even with neck deep in my work, a small click of a twig or the noise of silence makes my head turn and wonder for minutes at stretch. Was it someone, was it something, or is it my mind playing tricks with me. No doubt distractions come in your way, may you be solving something as simple as the two times tables or fixing an integral part of a space-craft. My question to my-self is what triggers it and why is it that something as important as concentration doesn’t set in when demanded.

Lets discuss what makes this Grey juke box of ours so fickle in nature.

No Matter What!
Be it the passing away of a loved one or introduction of someone new. The direct aftermath is the same viz. the depletion in the quality of work we do. Even after knowing the importance of our seriousness towards the deeds of our day, our mind shall never bend to the reality of our realm. Within an hour or so in to our work, visions start flashing in front of our eyes, visions, flashes of the happenings that have either left a bitter scar in our mind or the thankful feeling of existence.

Reading nothing related to the happening, suddenly a tear rolls down your eyes, people around you wonder, they panic to look at what your reading and are shocked to see the screen empty. Imagine the embarrassment of a person amidst a meeting suddenly giggles at the way he scared his damsel in the park, while his boss is 3 feet away pulling his hair off at the dropping sales figures. So we can say no matter what happens in the backstage of life, the show will never change, the show will still be known as distraction.

I Don’t Know Why Am Doing It!
Don’t know about the actual statistics of the amount of people who work as if their lives depend on it, while others work more than them yet have no idea of what they are doing or where will it lead them. Some work for money, some for fame, some even work to loose their sane. It’s the ones who don’t know their work are the ones who wander off easily. We all have to remember that we as humans can only build machines, but can never think or work like one for long. Knowing what you do and also appreciating it reduces the chances of your mind getting distracted towards green pastures

Never Try, Never Fail!
‘No matter what I do I never get success!’ , ‘I tried my best, but am just unlucky!’ . People with little or no self respect for their deeds or the ones who don’t know how much their act no matter if proportionate to a pinch of salt in curry or sugar in milk matter to others, never truly understand the true meaning and the efficiency of the depth of their mind. All the so called Fallen Angels & The Lost Causes, the so called Departed’s & the Wannabe Emmos shall burn in loss, with no light of wisdom or the warmth of care, the mind just wanders in despair.

The Yogas we try or the breathing meditations, the anti depressions and the anxiety pills we pop, we ourselves have no idea what all we do throughout the day for this fragile mind of ours.