Our stolen focus

Author's name: Johan Harry Publisher: Dar Al Tanweer for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2023 Literary classification: Personal development and self-improvement Book summary: "When my son was baptized at the age of nine, he developed an intense obsession—so strange (which didn't last long)—with Elvis Presley. He started repeating the song 'Jailhouse Rock' loudly, trying to imitate the king's own voice trembles, and shaking his hips like him. He didn't realize that this style of singing had now become a joke; and that made him perform it with all the sincerity a child not yet a teenager could have, believing it made him look amazing. In the brief moments of pause before singing the song again, he would ask to know everything about Elvis (everything! everything!), so I told him that silly, sad, exciting story. I told him: Elvis Presley was born in one of the poorest towns in Mississippi... a place far away, very far. He came into this world with a twin brother who died minutes after birth. In his childhood, his mother told him that his brother could hear his voice if he sang to the moon every night, so he kept singing and singing. He started performing his songs in front of audiences at the same time television was spreading, so he quickly became more famous than anyone before him. Wherever Elvis went, people shouted with excitement, to the point that his whole world was a scream. He withdrew into a cocoon he made himself, where he began to praise his possessions instead of glorifying his lost freedom. He bought his mother a palace called 'Graceland'."