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Not all the time. I'm not talking about moving to a mountaintop in Tibet and never interacting with another human being ever again.
I'm talking about having a few uninterrupted hours to myself every day. I'm working on a project that requires intense concentration. Every time I get interrupted, I lose track of what I was doing and have to focus all over again, just in time for another interruption. Yes, it's very important that I finish it. No, I can't just give up on it. Doesn't seem to matter what time of day I start work on it. Even if it's in the wee hours of the morning, somebody will wake up; family's full of night owls. If it's not a human being, then the minute I start typing in earnest, a cat will jump right up into my arms and break my concentration. (Paralyze my arms, too, in the process.) As for humans, it seems the faster I'm typing, the more they want to talk to me about something else.
Time alone doesn't happen much. Even if I'm by myself in the house, the phone always seems to ring right when I'm busiest. I can understand my husband calling on his lunch break to say hello, but he usually calls at least one or two other times besides that, each shift. And if it isn't him, it's somebody else. Church, doctor's office, wrong number, whatever. Maybe that mountaintop in Tibet doesn't sound like such a bad idea.
So does this mean I just don't like people, or what?
I'm talking about having a few uninterrupted hours to myself every day. I'm working on a project that requires intense concentration. Every time I get interrupted, I lose track of what I was doing and have to focus all over again, just in time for another interruption. Yes, it's very important that I finish it. No, I can't just give up on it. Doesn't seem to matter what time of day I start work on it. Even if it's in the wee hours of the morning, somebody will wake up; family's full of night owls. If it's not a human being, then the minute I start typing in earnest, a cat will jump right up into my arms and break my concentration. (Paralyze my arms, too, in the process.) As for humans, it seems the faster I'm typing, the more they want to talk to me about something else.
Time alone doesn't happen much. Even if I'm by myself in the house, the phone always seems to ring right when I'm busiest. I can understand my husband calling on his lunch break to say hello, but he usually calls at least one or two other times besides that, each shift. And if it isn't him, it's somebody else. Church, doctor's office, wrong number, whatever. Maybe that mountaintop in Tibet doesn't sound like such a bad idea.
So does this mean I just don't like people, or what?