My mind wanders. A lot. Sometimes I don’t even realize it until I’m already way down a totally random path and I “wake up” and realize I’ve been daydreaming. The more bored I am, the more powerless I am to stop it. In other words, this seems to happen a lot in meetings. I’ll tell myself “OK, you need to FOCUS” and I try very hard for like a minute, and then the next thing I know, I’m thinking about a gazillion other things. I have to constantly pull myself back. I do this in one-on-one conversations, too. Luckily, I am very good at acting like I am listening, so most people can’t tell.
And it’s really random things too. Today I was walking back to my desk from the cafeteria (which is in a different building), and started wondering what would happen if I were to suddenly throw my bottle of sparkling apple juice on the concrete. What would the people around me think? I really wanted to do it. In meetings, I’ll stare intently at whoever is talking, and nod along, but in my head I’ll be wondering what the person would do if I just suddenly reached out and pinched his nose. Or what if I just stood up and started dancing crazily? What would they do? Sometimes I imagine it so vividly that I worry I might actually do it one day.
I know I can’t be the only one who does this. Am I?
