Because I want my protest song to get more attention, I tried to share it on Twitter yesterday.
While also trying to pay attention to my busiest work day, I could not upload that song to Twitter despite trying several possible solutions.
My producer Riccardo, who always pays attention to my struggles with technology, suggested that I needed to set up a SoundCloud account first. It seems to me that I always need to pay attention to too many steps in order to get things done. For example, I haven’t had time to pay attention to which distribution platform I should use to get my music on Spotify.
Being a psychotherapist full time and giving my patients the attention they need makes it difficult for me to give enough attention to getting my music out there.
However, I was able to pay attention to Riccardo’s suggestion and I got my protest song up on SoundCloud!
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Then, when I finally posted it on Twitter, it got zero attention.
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I always get SOME attention when I post to my 35.7K followers on Twitter. So I tried again by asking a question (which usually gets more attention).
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Again, zero attention.
Fighting back the shame that occurs when we want attention and don’t get any, I tried to find out if it were me, my song, or Twitter that was the problem.
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That got responses, some indicating they were also having new problems getting attention on Twitter.
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Then, because my cat Joan always gets attention, I posted this:
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Attention is such an interesting issue. It turned out that I was so caught up in paying attention to Rachel Maddow and getting attention for my song on Wednesday evening that I forgot to give attention to something very important — taking my medication. I’m hoping that lapse in my attention doesn’t have any attending consequences.
There are too many things I need to pay attention to!
What do you notice when you pay attention to the rest of this post?
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Here’s what I find when I look for attention on YouTube.
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Thanks to all who are paying attention, including YOU!
