Recently, I challenged my cell members to fast from the most crucial item in their lives. No, not food, but their mobile phones! Like it or not, mobile phones are fast becoming an item that sticks to our body like a leech. Yup, you've read it correctly, a LEECH!. You use it too often and it is going to suck the life out of you! You hear the adage, can't leave home without it. I would like to add, can't stay at home without it too!
I was driving the other day and what I saw really drove me to gave this challenge to them. This young chap was using his mobile phone SMSing his friends while crossing the road, oblivious to what's happening around him. Just then, a driver honked at him to hurry up his process of crossing the road and lo and behold, he held up his middle finger at the driver. Such cheek! If it not for the driver's impatience to get to his destination, he would have got down and gave that young chap a five-knuckle sandwiches!
Basically, what I'm trying to teach my cell members is to rely less on faceless communication and be real and true to one another. Too many times, because of the convenience of mobile phone communication, we think it is ok to just "pass on" the information without realizing how the other party felt. I am an advocate of face-to-face communication. That's how you know and feel for that person, the expression that is on that person's face really help us to connect and bond. To know a person well requires time and effort, to burn some energy, to get our butt going. You will realize that doing all these will help us to want to know people even better. You want to know more friends, go and do it the personal way!
Though this fasting from mobile phone is but just a week, I believe it is not just a mindless exercise, but I think it help us to appreciate friends better, to exercise our spiritual discipline so that we can learn to overcome this over-reliance on things that we have taken granted for in life, our mobile phone.
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