I was/am a very active poster on Facebook. I'm in the communications industry and justify the bubbling up as part of who I am. But the energy there came to a head for me yesterday and I temporarily "deactivated." Today a friend who noticed, emailed to see if everything was okay. After emailing him about my need for balance, I opened the email with the link to this story.
Totally apropos.
I used to take silent retreats twice a year - and though every report card of my childhood cited that I was a "talker" - the silence was golden. Nourishing. So while I love the new active cyberworld that's been created for us, I also have come to appreciate disconnecting. I will be back on Facebook soon, but I've come to realize the need for balance there.
I'm grateful for Pico Iyer having put this in words for me, to share when I go back there - and with those friends that have emailed wondering where I've gone.
(And did anyone else find it interesting that he mentions purposefully planning whitespace in his writing - as breathing room - but that it was missing in this retelling? I laughed. As a designer I'm well aware of that and wondered before I read that this was a transcript of his talk, why this was written in such large chunks. I bet his original drafts looked much different. With the beauty of space.)
On Feb 25, 2015 gretchen wrote:
Beautiful synchronicity.
I was/am a very active poster on Facebook. I'm in the communications industry and justify the bubbling up as part of who I am. But the energy there came to a head for me yesterday and I temporarily "deactivated." Today a friend who noticed, emailed to see if everything was okay. After emailing him about my need for balance, I opened the email with the link to this story.
Totally apropos.
I used to take silent retreats twice a year - and though every report card of my childhood cited that I was a "talker" - the silence was golden. Nourishing. So while I love the new active cyberworld that's been created for us, I also have come to appreciate disconnecting. I will be back on Facebook soon, but I've come to realize the need for balance there.
I'm grateful for Pico Iyer having put this in words for me, to share when I go back there - and with those friends that have emailed wondering where I've gone.
(And did anyone else find it interesting that he mentions purposefully planning whitespace in his writing - as breathing room - but that it was missing in this retelling? I laughed. As a designer I'm well aware of that and wondered before I read that this was a transcript of his talk, why this was written in such large chunks. I bet his original drafts looked much different. With the beauty of space.)