I remember when I was learning how to type.. that I would constantly pay attention to where I positioned my fingers.. try to remember which letters were close by... and though that was expected at the beginning.. it just slowed me down as I progressed with my learning.
Every now and then I would become so immersed in whatever I was typing (chatting.. writing a story.. etc) that I would forget about where my fingers were positioned... I was just typing --- no real thought involved in the whole process.
It wasn't until I 'realized' that I was typing without paying attention to this that I would mess up --- I was messing up because I was 'thinking' about typing... instead of just doing it -- focusing beyond it --- on the story.
Getting over someone is the same way. At the beginning you are focused on trying to keep yourself distracted. You focus on whether or not you're forgetting the person... you focus on what you will use as a distraction next... but you aren't forgetting about the person, because you are focused on trying to forget them.
Eventually you make these 'distractions' so much of a habit to the point to where you become immersed in the activities that you 'forget' to forget the person --- you're just having fun with whatever it is that you're doing.
However, if you focus on the fact that you have forgotten 'forgetting' her... then you will mess up.
Hope you understand... if you want a distraction to work.. you have to dedicate most of your attention to it--- become lost to the fun of it, and stop focusing on whether or not you are actually forgetting her.
Last edited by Aeradalia; 09-04-09 at 08:25 AM.
"The weakest soul, knowing its own weakness, and believing this truth that strength can only be developed by effort and practice, will, thus believing, at once begin to exert itself, and, adding effort to effort, patience to patience, and strength to strength, will never cease to develop, and will at last grow divinely strong."
- James Allen