The last couple of weeks I’ve taken a step back from all my cyberspace busy-ness to just enjoy what’s happening in life. I’ve still been busy, talking with churches and running my kids around and doing some writing. But I decided to take a break from the things that were starting to nag at me, making me feel like I always needed to be doing something. Sending tweets on Twitter. Writing a blog post every couple of days. Updating Facebook. Reading the latest and greatest blog posts that I follow. None of these are “bad” things. They were just becoming distracting. I wanted to engage more with my wife and kids, more with my physical surroundings. I wanted to take a step back from “cyberspace”. So I did.
For the last few weeks I’ve kept things simple. And it’s been very nice! Sometimes simple is best. And I rediscovered that simple isn’t bad. No one panicked because I wasn’t tweeting. My website didn’t crash. I didn’t lose any friends on Facebook. And I’m pretty sure I didn’t miss too much life-changing info by not reading many blogs.
I need to re-engage some. I need to write some blog post on Kidmin360 website. In fact, after not posting for a couple of weeks I have a lot of thoughts spilling out of my brain so I’m excited about writing! I’ll start tweeting a little more and I did a lot on Facebook yesterday because so many of my friends wished me a happy birthday, which was such a blessing. Cyberspace is a good place…if it’s kept in balance.
But it’s been a nice reminder that sometimes simple is best.
So true. A live landscape beats an LCD view. Voice beats text. . .Handwritten beats typed. . . and face to face beats cyberspace! Sometimes we convince ourselves that we are staying “connected” using all this cyber-technology. And then we remember the kid in the next room who needs a hug, or the spouse downstairs longing for face-time. Balance. There’s always something around to throw it off if we allow it.