Exposing The Good in Digital Distractions
I keep thinking about distractions.
In my latest piece for The Gospel Coalition Canada, I argue there’s some good in them.
Here’s how the article begins:
When we are in a quiet room alone, we struggle. Our past haunts our present with the noise of our previous mistakes. The future too, with all of its unknowns, brings anxiety.
Blaise Pascal, writing almost four hundred years ago, observed this in Pensées (Thoughts). He said even when the present is delightful, we hate to see it pass away and so we make every effort to prolong it, making light of it, instead of enjoying it for what it is.
How difficult it is to be fully present. Pascal surmised, “we never live, but we hope to live; and, as we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable we should never be so.”