It’s been a while since I did a radio silence. I texted my thoughts to my pal Winners this morning.
“I’ve been thinking of maybe shelving all social media and not blogging for the whole of Lent - just to get my heart-space right.”
I said.
He was enthusiastic, though I agreed with his assertion that it would be tough to include WhatsApp in that, as it’s useful for a lot of stuff.
But, it’s been a while since I took out 40 days from writing blogs or posting on Instagram or Twitter. In fact, I seem to write a blog post every 1.3 days or so, on average, so a whole Lent’s worth seems an enormous amount of time. It’ll mess up my stats.
Nonetheless, ‘heart-space’ is the thing. And by that I mean room to breathe, room to dream, and find songs and cartoons and fun again. I really do need that.
It’s worth pointing out that I’m not catholic. Lent is an arbitrary construct for me, even if Easter isn’t. Actually the idea of a ‘radio silence’ came to me before I realised how close we are to Pancake Day (next Tuesday). So in this instance, Lent is a convenience, but a useful one. And I do like pancakes.
Happily though, that’s not until next week, so there’s plenty of time to tell you about my theory - how each of us get stuck inside ‘bubbles’ that look very serious and important from the inside and very silly from the out. I can go into great lengths about the acrobatic way (and I mean it) I charged up my phone today, and you’ll definitely want to hear about the improbable wackiness of one of the meeting rooms at work now having a windbreak, and a bucket and spade in it!
All in good time though, eh.
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