Focus

Usually I enjoy the sound of rain.

So this time I couldn’t figure out what exactly was bothering me so much about the winds and the downpour.

After a few minutes I finally understood.

It’s the alarm clock.

We had purchased one of those old-fashioned manual ticking alarm clocks with the bells on top that sound like a fire drill so we can’t possibly sleep through it. The hi-tech digital ones aren’t as effective.

So really what happens is that I’ve now programmed myself to actually wake up three minutes before that sound because it’s so frightening. But the loud ticking goes on.

So when I was trying to tune into the sound of the rain it was being overshadowed by the ticking and the competition for attention was a headache instead of relaxing.