Yes, people actually made phone calls and rang door bells just to shmooze. But it has been become, sadly, a lost art. With the advent of countless, incredible time-saving devices and the pressure of making EVERY SECOND COUNT, purposeless, pointless, non-meaningful encounters have gone the way of the passe cassette tape. It is no longer fashionable, no; it’s not even acceptable to “waste” any time at all.
The truth is, of course, that the time was not really “wasted” at all. It was utilized to connect with each other in a natural and spontaneous way. I miss those days. Life was slower, less pressured, less harried, and maybe even more meaningful.
I say more meaningful because along with our obsession for being at maximum productivity level at all times, we have lost the precious subtleties of patience, listening, eye contact, interacting, and just thinking. It is quite a price to pay.
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Keywords: Contemplation, Introspection, Listening, Life, Wasting time, Waste of time, Reflection, Meditation, Solilitude, Loneliness
Bible reference(s): Genesis 24:63, Joshua 1:8, Psalm 1:2 , Psalm 77:12, Psalm 119:15, Psalm 143:5, Proverbs 25:17, Matthew 14:23, Mark 1:5, Mark 6:46, Luke 5:16, Luke 6:12, John 6:15
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