Has this ever happened to you?

You go over to the window to sharpen your pencil and something you see out the window grabs your mind and your entire pencil gets eaten up by the sharpener.

Then your teacher accuses you of not paying attention and, if you say, “How come I heard you say I wasn’t paying attention if I wasn’t paying attention?” She tells you “Don’t talk back to me,” instead of seeing that you had a good point … except on my pencil.

My Mom complains, too, when my mind wanders off, but I don’t know what to do about it. My mind has a mind of its own. It just goes away and does its own thing, and I have no say about it. I think sometimes it just needs a break from being cooped up in my busy brain.

Anyway, I guess I’m lucky that my mind has its own GPS system, because somehow it always finds its way back to me.