This past week I was having a conversation with Nina, and she was telling me about how she was planning on not checking her Facebook until next Wednesday. Why that specific date? Because she said people would stop talking about retreat by then.
Those words may sound harsh, but as I listened to her I realized that there was truth to what she was saying. The way we approach media today is different from the way we approached it yesterday, and as access to it becomes more immediate, the editing we would have implemented on ourselves transforms.
Brothers and sisters, let’s not stop talking about retreat once we stop talking about it online.
Here’s a challenge:
When you get back from retreat in two days, don’t make Facebook the first place you talk about it (i.e. a status update.) Don’t make anywhere online the first place you talk about it.
Take some time to think and to meditate. That could be a week, or it could be an hour. After taking the time to wait a moment, then share it with someone in real life, face-to-face, on a personal and intimate level (rather than just flippantly blasting it onto the Internet.)
These are just some of my thoughts.
