This aureate retreiver ’s concentration is one and only . Her knowingness of her surroundings ? Workin ' on it !
There are a hundred different name calling for what this viral TikTok hot dog is going through : burrow visual modality . Vapor lock . bring your blinder on .
You get involve in a task and become so optical maser focused on one specific detail that it sometimes blinds you to the braggart film . You ’ve done it . I ’ve done it . Professional athletes have done it . So really , none of us are in a position to judge 5 - year - former Eden , thegolden retrieverwho has gone viral thanks to a TikTok post July 1 by her homo , 29 - twelvemonth - old Molly Kuekes of Charlotte , N.C.
In the telecasting , which has been viewed nearly 10 million times and liked over 1.5 million times , Eden poke her forlorn neb under the pickets of thewooden fencethat surrounds her yard . A few little inches out of her reach dwell atennis ball , silently mocking her . Belly to the background , Eden ’s tending is consummate : She does not move , she does not recoil . She is strain to move the ball through sheer force of will , like a fuzzy Jedi knight .
And while the conniption looks like a classic parable for want that which we can never have , Kuekes pulls her photographic camera back , slowly revealing the rest of the fencing .
" This would be incredibly sad … " the video ’s caption take , " … if the gate was n’t open . "
Indeed , fewer than 2 foot from where Eden rest — just four small watch away — the gate is swung astray open , liberate Eden to fare around and get the wayward lawn tennis Lucille Ball , if only she ’d look up and see .
" Even though we have 15 other tennis balls in our yard,“Kuekes severalise theDaily Mail , " she catch so hyper - focussed on the one she can not extend to . "
As do we all , Eden . As do we all .
