Well folks, here I am again
after six months or so. Not that anyone would ever miss me if I go away for
good. But the thing is, I haven’t had much to say on this platform. I’ve told
my fellow blogger, Martha, that I’ll be rejoining the blogosphere again, but
somehow I never get around to it.
I saw a video the other day by
a woman in her mid-eighties or older. She still looks great at her age, and she
inspires with her always-upbeat-self. In one of her videos she talked about
platform building and such, and how she’s done checking stats and likes and
loves and comments – because who has time at her age to be caught in an
artificial world when there’s a natural world out there waiting to be enjoyed.
And the more I contemplate
this, the more I realize why I don’t blog more often. It’s because I love
nature. I love walking in the woods to the tune of birdsong. Down that nature
trail is an aisle of divine beauty. Being outside beats the computer any day.
I recently told a friend that
my phone is off half the day, and I may or may not even get online the other
half. Life is too short to be caught up in artifice. Social media is all about
projecting an image of yourself. It’s about presenting to the world a version
of yourself that may or may not be false. It’s a venue through which many cry
out for attention.
Having said all that, you know
as well as I do that there’s no other way in today’s world to make it as a
writer. But having an online presence, though it seems to be a must these
days, is counterintuitive to the contemplative heart – or is it just me who
struggles with this?
Drop me a line in the comments
and let me know if I’m the only one – or if you too have struggles with social
media overkill. And also, if you have reconciled these opposites – the
necessity of social media and the spiritual need for solitude and silence – how
do you balance these opposites?
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