I’ve been thinking about attention lately. Not as a virtue, but as a scarce currency we keep spending on nothing. A five-minute wait for a train becomes a frantic scroll through someone’s vacation photos. A quiet evening becomes a debate with a stranger in a comment section that neither of us will remember tomorrow.
The field is still there. The bull will wait. portablebull.blogspot.com
— Portable Bull
We could put it down. Leave the phone in another room. Close the laptop at 8 PM. Walk without a route. But the bull has become part of the posture — a slight forward lean, thumbs ready, eyes half-focused on the middle distance where the next little dopamine hit lives. I’ve been thinking about attention lately