The mind wanders...

Ever notice how your mind can wander? Like someone will be talking and you'll find the most obscure thing to keep your attention? Listening to speeches the other day I was enthralled by a man in what I might refer to as the ugliest suit I have ever seen. I must have spent a good part of the evening trying to figure out what made him want to purchase that suit in the first place. Then my attention wandered to a rather large spider outside the window hanging in it's web. It was a big fat orb weaver, I kind of wished I had my camera to take a photo of it but I only had the wife's small point and shoot I hate that thing... Then there was a storm to watch, quite incredible really it was a torrential downpour. Then the sun was setting and produced a beautiful pink, purple and blue sky amidst the grey of the storm. I mean none of these speeches were life changing and they weren't something I was going to be quizzed on. There is an art to speeches and a certain way you need to keep your audience captured and unfortunately there was only one speaker that really did that well the rest were well just speakers. I mean these speakers were chosen for who they were not their public speaking ability. Just goes to show me how much public speaking can mean in life, you might only use those skills once or twice in your life but to keep a audience captured while you recite a humorous anecdote you need to keep their attention keep them wanting more. Now of course that is only my opinion and I just might suffer from ADD or maybe just terminal boredom.