Attention

Attention

There was this set period of time I spent into thinking what could be the root of all problems, and I realised that an insanely, large amount of them, or possibly all (i'm still determining whether it's all or nearly all, but classifying them into nearly all to leave out exceptional cases.) of problems incurred in daily life is based on one single desire. Attention. Problems starts with doing something or doing nothing. Doing something means it started with you. Doing nothing means it started with someone, but spilt over to you. When I mean doing something, it could be anything done at any time; it's just that the case was brought up today. Doing nothing doesn't entirely apply. It could be you went to this school, and someone didn't like your face, or you happen to be there when the gangsters started picking a fight, or even simply because the DotA game you played you got a lousy hero and lost the game due to it being a -ar game. Whether it is your fault or not, it is a different case. But, all problems will initiate from attention. I suppose it's the psychology of this desire attention that makes it so powerful enough that people base their problems, unintentionally or not, on it. For example, most people have the common problem felt by virtually anyone. Relationship problems. Be it friendship, love or kinship, it's always the same. People want to be recognised, want to be admired honoured or appreciated, it's the same. People want other people to acknowledge their existence. It's a natural thing that most of the time is subconsciously done. Why would anyone get a boyfriend/girlfriend? Usually it's the feeling of having a personal someone, and you will gain attention from that special him/her, or from the people who realise that this guy finally got one. A boyfriend/girlfriend will attend to you in a way normal friends without this stage of relationship won't. They divert time, money and energy just for you, if we are not talking about double-timing and things like that. Basically speaking, they devote themselves to you, and this devotion is a form of attention. If they didn't give you attention, you would be ignored, and I don't suppose many people want such a type of relationship just to be ignored. Well, different people different views, opinions and preferences, but it is mostly like that. Even with friends, which I mostly covered in my first post, people want to be them because society think of them as "cool" people, or basically people with not much worth except in the materialistic place where seeing is believing and you don't have to go through the whole character analysis thing to make a person "cool". People always want to be acknowledged, and this will make them go for friends that will, simply because it's one of the better shortcuts. Even with problems dealing with studying, possibly the second most common problems, but mostly dealing with adolescents and the population in an educational institute, the point of attention being the root of the problem exist. Why would anyone do well? There are a rare few who actually think of the distant future and mapped out their journey in life already. For the most, it's basically to see who's the most intellectual, to get into the best course, or please one's parents. It's possibly a small minority that I'm talking about, but seriously, who already decided on what to become in the future? Those people are cleanly left out in this section. Being the most intellectual or smart is one of the ways to be outstanding, and this outstanding means people will take notice of you, and this noticing is a form of attention; for a few out there. But while it may not actually be true, and may not even be true, it is still a fact that people do things for attention, for a majority of their lives, and most of the time it is a subconscious act, and many people will fail to recognise that their attention seeking conscious will kill them. But to say, attention revolves largely around the society's upbringing and most of the problems with attention as the root of it originates from the society one is in.

What is attention, and why do people need it? Indepth, I can't answer it yet. But if anyone ever figures out how to live without attention at any single direct or indirect cause, then they solved one of the world's many questions of the great Truth. The one that people just make up to sound cool.