Shree: Focus

 

010622: Shree: Focus

Today’s times are of mindscape fragmentation – not knowing things, not making any sense, not feeling anchored and not knowing what one is dealing with – the entire perception itself seems to have taken a hit. To communicate nowadays is to embrace the confusion and chaos of mindscape, pick up the pieces, generate a sequence, generate focus and then initiate the process of exploration. This is evident in environment, relationships, academic and professional dimensions. Priorities are rarely known, where to go and what to achieve is poorly defined and time to deal with this confusion is not given – one is headed for stress.

In this scenario then, acceptance of time, pace, sequences, clarity, focus is very important. The tendency of today’s psychological environment is of scattered reality and hence no object or an idea or a value or imagination ever stays for long or in focus - it “dissolves” into thin air. Hence we are required to be in perpetual mode of constructing something worthwhile and intimate from a perpetually deconstructed environment - something like making a building stand on loose foundations/ quick sand.

Reasons for encountering this phenomenon are plenty – perceivable are digitization tools, social media, uncertainty of governance, uncertainty of aspirations at all levels and too fast change to even consider what one is dealing with. Added to that is the psychological toll of Covid on mindscape – loss of recalling anything worthwhile and fatigue.

The aim of exercises academically needs to bring back or redefine “focus” of living/ aspirations/ values and acknowledge the connections with the social and geographical environment, to imbibe empathy, to give time, to become more considerate etc. The reflection of loss of focus at personal, academic and professional levels indicates a loss of trust in the environment. Shouldn’t’ this be addressed?

Indeed this is an ambitious demand of bringing back the focus, but it is a sure worthwhile pursuit.

Hari Om