Sometimes i wonder if being impoverished unleashes a potential that is much harder to attain than a person who is pampered their entire life, not really knowing much about the real world. Being in a bubble, attached to their computer screens, rarely allowing the sun’s rays to touch them, i feel like we are stuck. The computer, the internet, is built to keep us using it. It is built to make us waste time. It claims that we are connecting with people better, but this is only mildly true. sure, we can now email and skype with people we do not know, but who writes letters to people anymore? I feel like when writing on paper, i am forced to think more about what i write, making it more “me.” The computers are convenient, which our society is based off of, convenience.
So i wonder, what happens when we dont have computers. I think about the retreats i have been on, without a computer, and i think about how much more i got done and how much fun i had. i didnt need to play LoL or browse facebook/tumblr, i had fun INTERACTING with people FACE TO FACE. When i went to Yugo, i saw the children there, having nothing, but yet having so much more me and the children i have seen in america. They had no nintendo dsx or whatever the new gameboy was. They had no tv to watch. They had the streets, the parks, the fields, but most of all, they had each other.
Mark 10:25 ” It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
