Attention by Zac SMith Copyrite (C) zac smith 2004

“The power is out again.”
“No it’s not, you’ve just become blind.”
“How would that have happened?”
“It happens all the time.”
“To who?”
“To people like you.”
“Why haven’t I heard of spontaneous blindness before?”
“Because you don’t pay attention.”
“I pay attention!”
“Obviously, you don’t.” 
“Why?”
“Because you just went blind!”
“How can you go blind from not paying attention?”
“It happens because you pay so little attention that your body decided it no longer needed to see to function.”
“Why would my body do that?”
“To save space.”
“What will this new space be used for?”
“It will be used to hold all the information the rest of your body uses, which in turn will cause other parts of you to be lazy.”
“I don’t want that to happen!”
“Me neither, but it’s an endless cycle, a part of you gets so little use due to it’s laziness it will cease to function, much like your eyes.”
“And the cycle repeats?”
“Now you’re paying attention.”
Just then, the lights came back on.