Sometimes you focus your attention somewhere and sometimes something grabs your attention and focuses it upon itself.
The sound of sprinklers woke me up this morning and while I tried to pretend that it was a white noise that I could sleep through, I was mostly fooling myself. Which is to say that I wasn’t fooling anyone at all. My ears heard the sprinklers and couldn’t go back to sleep.
How many other things are like this? Why would I stubbornly ignore what is obviously eating up my attention? Why not just address the situation? Why ignore it? It’s not going to go away by itself.