Focus, in the optical sense, means to converge light rays at a given point to produce an image point.

Pros

We need to admit that we care an awful lot what people around us think, it’s kind of a big deal, especially when there seems to be a(n apparent) correlation between the amount of people that like you (or your product in the case of nearly anonymous C.E.O.’s that live in islands omitted from our maps) and the amount of money you make.

The benefit of meditating on our death is that regardless of how many people like you, (to cite recent examples) as was the case with Bowie and Prince, there will likely only be a select group of people in your room when you take that final breath.

And what alleviation does that provide anyway? (This part of my argument presupposes the reader has had a fever or some severe illness like pneumonia or something of the sort) Even if the people that care for you like parents or siblings are there in the room with you the bone fissuring headache is hardly alleviating, the mucus still issues forth like Topanga Creek in the spring (that is, first hardly, then incessant, until it dwindles). What does it matter that one, two, or five people are around your death bed as you’re displayed there like a work of art before the opening exhibition? You’ll still have to contend with yourself and the decisions you’ve made.

Personally this has afforded countless benefits to me. For one, I think about how snarlingly disgusted I’d be on my death bed recollecting any given day during the summer of 2015 when that oblivious fool would wake up at 4 p.m. and scroll Instagram for hours before brushing his teeth while there were books to be read, people to be met, poems to be written, and youth to be taken advantage of, in the humid, and not so touristy, though still enjoyable city of Asunción. So that I don’t forget that person dying in some actual future time and distant (maybe?) place doesn’t look back to know and possibly regret having wasted a precious life, I remember Doc Brown’s words:

The future isn’t written yet, none of it has. Your [our] future is whatever we make it, so make it a good one.

Cons

You won’t be the conversation starter at any party where people aren’t taking DMT. Big deal.

works cited:

http://www.optique-ingenieur.org/en/courses/OPI_an...