Look Away

By Julia

‘Look away for a second too long and you’ve missed it!’

I get easily distracted, I constantly look away. An example of this is when I was watching a show with my friend, there was honking and beeping so I went outside to check, without pausing or realising the show was on, so as I was looking outside I missed the most important part of the show. Thankfully my friend replayed it for me. That is my experience of looking away for a second and missing everything. Sometimes looking away for even a second is not something I’d like to do but I tend to do unintentionally. 

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I am awkward and I fidget with my phone a lot to get out of socialising and awkward occurrences. I pull my phone out of my pocket, I open it, I scroll onto an app and close my phone to seem busy or occupied. This method normally works with a friend of mine who I walk to school with when it is awkward. Other times when I do this I’m nervous, I fidget a lot with my phone to take my mind off something nerve-racking. Although I am socially awkward in person, online I’m a whole different person and my personality is the opposite. 

To get out of weird situations online that my friends are talking about I use a different app or leave my phone for one second. Every time I do this I miss out on something my friends are showing or talking about. A real life experience of this was, I was already on my phone but I looked away for a moment, during that second my friend deleted an image they sent that everyone saw but I had just missed it because every moment does matter, looking away or fidgeting will make you miss the moments. 

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Something that has great value to me currently is either reading or watching a show I enjoy. At night or whenever I’m upset/angry I like to read web comics that are normally romance or slice of life, they always manage to make me happy. A show that is one of my comfort shows is probably ‘From me to You’, it’s a show I have watched previously but I never get sick of it, it makes me happy and I can talk about it for multiple hours non-stop.