In the early 1960s there was a Broadway show titled “Stop the World, I Wanna Get Off.” That sentiment was a harbinger of the hippie movement, the mass pilgrimage to California to “get my head together” and any number of counter valences to the new materialism of the 1950s.
I’m hearing the same refrain today from secular prophets declaring that “enough” has become too much. The workplace pace and the relentless digital world have pushed us to the point of overwhelm. I’m hearing the same refrain from pastors who remind us that we have “forgotten to remember the sabbath.” I’m seeing the same refrain from mindfulness people whose faces nevertheless show the strain of daily life.
Granted, we have been sold this way of life, but we have also bought into it. When the Facebook enterprise had an outage recently, it was a “crisis.” But not one noticed by everyone equally. For some of us, social media does not rule our lives. But maybe there is something else. What is one contributor to overwhelm (of the many) that you can intentionally let loose?
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