I’m going on a technology fast

“I’m going on a technology fast…. I’m a little bit scared. There’s this fear that I’ll be disconnected and somehow some amazing thing will happen and I won’t know about it. And then, I don’t know, I won’t have any friends? I guess that’s my fear. It’s not that I don’t need friends, because of course I do, but friends are not who I am. My relationships cannot really address issues of loneliness and deep-seated questions of meaning.

These are pretty basic spiritual issues that we grapple with. I realized that my iPod and Facebook and my cell phone are really keeping me from addressing those issues, and they’re keeping me from engaging with my spiritual self. I’m really looking forward to a more spontaneous existence. I think that’s why you feel spiritually deprived when you’re connected to all this technology, because it takes all this spontaneity out of existence, and without that there’s just no magic.

Magic doesn’t exist in something that’s created, it exists in something that… happens to you, not that you make happen. I’m getting rid of technology so I can let things happen to me.”