Lent has begun. What are you sacrificing this season?
I’ve logged off of Facebook and deleted the app from my phone. I haven’t chosen to give up Facebook because everyone else is doing it, or because I still have Twitter and blogging and who really cares? I’ve chosen to sacrifice Facebook for the next 40 days because I have better things to do with my time, like sifting through the devotional book I bought after chapel today.
It’s been a stressful semester so far. I don’t say these sorts of things to complain, and surely not for sympathy: I have been stressed more in the past two months than I ever have before. I had to turn down an invitation to read a paper at the Sigma Tau Delta national convention because of everything academic that I would have missed. Since we’re on the subject of sacrifice, let’s emphasize that with invisible quotation marks.
No one really ever has much to complain about, even though complaining is a way for many of us to release some of the stress that has built up inside of us throughout the course of a day. I chose to add a second major; I chose to take as many credit hours as I possibly could just so I can graduate on time. It’s no one’s fault; it’s how it has to be.
From now until Easter, don’t think about what you’ve given up. Think of the reasons why you’ve chosen to give it up at all (if you’ve chosen to, I suppose). No, giving up Facebook isn’t that big of a deal. But I like chocolate, and giving it up wouldn’t be much of a sacrifice.
I could give up homework for Lent, but then I would have to drop out of school.
Not cool, man.
Love&hugs, Meg<3
