{"id":18155,"date":"2023-05-01T14:38:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T14:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/theme-hyper-focusing-on-certain-relationships-and-events-in-your-life-and-how-easily-it-can-distract-you-from-what-really-matters-priorities\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T14:38:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T14:38:18","slug":"theme-hyper-focusing-on-certain-relationships-and-events-in-your-life-and-how-easily-it-can-distract-you-from-what-really-matters-priorities","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/theme-hyper-focusing-on-certain-relationships-and-events-in-your-life-and-how-easily-it-can-distract-you-from-what-really-matters-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme: Hyper focusing on certain relationships, and events in your life and how easily it can distract you from what really matters, priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>College Admission essay about what I learned and know now from moving from Florida to south carolina and then back to Florida. These are some notes I took. I moved when I was 13 and left when I was 16 and the school in Charleston was called Ashley hall&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">-Prime teenage years 13-16<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">-How something can feel so important <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">when <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">it&#8217;s<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> in your everyday life<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">-Spending my whole childhood until 13 <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">in one place with the same people <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">then moving to a completely different life with all new people and focusi<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">ng 3 full years of my life completely on that place and forgetting what my old life was back home just to find out I had to go back&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">-Relationships with people and their importance&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">-My room and how I left it then moving back home and seeing it the same way I left it in 8<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-fontsize=\"11\">th<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> grade<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">-I loved my life in 8<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-fontsize=\"11\">th<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> grade living in palm beach and being <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">devastated<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> when I found out about the move then <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">hating it at first in <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Charleston<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> then learning to love it and forgetting about my life back home where I grew up then finding out I had to go back after completely adjusting to my new life&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">-The struggle of making friends at first with <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">people<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> who had been going to school together since preschool<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">,<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> especially during co<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">vid <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">and how everyone knew everyone and everything about <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">each other<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> and I had to start <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">fresh<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> a<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">s a <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">fres<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">hman<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> in <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">high school<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">-How I realized the little importance of popularity and who you were friends with when I moved back and re<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">alized how much better life was when I started not to care and started caring about the more important things in life&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">-How when I moved, I forgot about my old friends and life in palm beach and now that I am back how the same thing is happening with my friends in <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Charleston<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">-How something can seem so important for a <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">certain <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">period of<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">time<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> and <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">then <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">like nothing&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">-How I still struggle with this and get <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">attached<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> and how <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">I&#8217;m<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">currently<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> trying to overcome it<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">-Focusing too much on <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">little things<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> that <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">won&#8217;t<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> matter to you in the <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">future<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">-Still trying to navigate this<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">-Becoming so hyper focused on little thing you <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">lose<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> sight of the bigger picture<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">-Stages of life<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">-smelling perfume bring you back to <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">specific<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> times in <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">your<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> life<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">-How it felt on the first day we were allowed on <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">campus<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> at <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Ashley Hall<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Theme: <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Hyper focusing<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> on <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">certain<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> relationships, <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">and events in your life and how easily it can distract you from what<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"> really <\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">matters<\/span><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">, priorities<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; line-height: 18.3458px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College Admission essay about what I learned and know now from moving from Florida to south carolina and then back to Florida. These are some notes I took. I moved when I was 13 and left when I was 16 and the school in Charleston was called Ashley hall&nbsp; -Prime teenage years 13-16&nbsp; -How something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[706],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/18155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/18155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=18155"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=18155"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=18155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}