The Focus of things.....!!

I think I will write today about focus. It is something that I don't possess so it becomes quite natural that I write about it. What is focus? And where should we have one or desire one?

There is a lot of talk about life having a focus and what not. I believe that I have not reached the stage where I can ponder over the focus of something as big as my life. Maybe I should better start with a moment or a thought or an action.

Lets start at something even more basic. What is focus? Focus is when actions, thoughts or events converge on a point. That point can be a goal or an object or thing. The idea here is that the focus of the actions, thoughts or events should always be clear before beginning for only then can we ensure that we will reduce redundancies and progress in the wrong direction. This piece began without a focus but is gathering some semblance of a focus now. Perhaps the focus of it from the very beginning was to find focus.

Can we say then that the focus validates the actions, thoughts or events that converge on it. A random burst of   actions, thoughts or events can never accomplish anything. One instance of them cancels out another. Any shift due to their effect is possibly as random as the origin of these instances. So basically they result only in chaos. On the other hand if effort is made in aligning these thoughts, actions or events or picking and choosing the right instances of thoughts, actions and events according to the given focus then there is a greater chance that a shift in circumstances can be made in the pre-desired direction. It is important here that a random shift maybe result in a desirable change but it will seldom be the one that was pre-desired.

Our life consists of mostly these unfocused actions, thoughts and events. We are happy one instant and sad the other because we surrender to these random shifts of circumstances caused by the random bursts of actions, thoughts and events. And we end up calling them chance and fate and find relief in the acceptance that we were helpless.

Lets do an experiment. What if we spend the next moment with a focus. The first focus will be to find a focus and the next focus will be to gather targets for focus and so on. But all these actions will have a common focus to find some semblance of focus. So herein we discover that these actions, thoughts and events have multiple focuses. We are already making headway. We just found out a particularly interesting fact about focus and we had not pre-desired to find it. Yet we found it and we find this fact desirable. Where can this lead?

What if we try and keep finding focus in our work? We keep seconding those actions, thoughts, events that are not important to our focus. I am sure we will soon find a number of different focuses. Some more important than the others. Some immediate and some which can be deferred. Will all this result into something?

Lets find out.