Refocused

og. That's just how scatterbrained I am. My train of thought goes from one thing to another without necessarily finishing one thought. When I was a kid, I wanted to be in the video game industry, and then I got sidetracked with theatre for four years. Granted, it was a very fun four years and I hope to get sidetracked with it again, but it did distract me from my video games for a very, very long time.

This blog was to be finished last night, but distraction kept that from happening, too. Getting sidetracked is just a part of life, I think. Given the number of things that we all take in and do over the span of a day, it's impossible not to become distracted to the point of actually forgetting what you were doing in the first place.

Take rehearsal tonight, for example. It was supposed to be a complete run of the first act of Arabian Nights. The first act begins with a dance number, though, and we ended up rehearsing that for the first two hours of tonight. Then we only got through roughly the first hour of what we were supposed to get through.

We had a specific goal in mind coming into this thing, yes, but we ended up diverting from that for an insane amount of time. And it upset me a bit, and it tired me a lot, but the fact of the matter is that the dance is probably going to be better because of it, and the first act can be finessed later. It takes less practice than a very intricate dance scene.

So it was a good thing that Robin got sidetracked tonight, and decided to work on the dance. Even if it was crap to do it there, it will pay off later.

But getting sidetracked isn't always a good thing. Sometimes it can lead you to stay up for about an hour or four more than you wanted to one night. It can even lead you to break a promise you made to a friend, or cause you not to see that something in front of you is better than something in your peripheral. It can cause us to get distracted from the bigger picture, from what you've got.

Sometimes getting sidetracked will take you to heights you wouldn't normally achieve, but more often it's a negative thing, and all you can do is hope that you can get back on your original track before too much of an impact is made.