Distractions are like flies: annoying, persistent, burdensome, meddling, pestering, and should not assume priority to anyone, or anything. What is necessary, seems to be an aggressive prioritization of what is essential to the moment, and in the long run. Everything posterior to this must be deemed unnecessary. These distractions seem to actualize during meaningful pursuits of Wisdom. It then behooves the professional student to squash these distractions and not be flexible to concede precious time to these useless, inefficient, instances of urgency, obligation, and need for something, or someone else, at the student’s expense.
Time is not something we can get back, so it must be guarded, and utilized, every second to the absolute fullest. To not do so means we must not be serious in our pursuit of freedom through Wisdom.
EAR