As I sit in a meeting cube on a remote video call with 60 other people I am struck with the lurking loneliness of this virtual connection. It is much like watching an emotionally charged movie by myself. I am wrapped up in a screen, a slide and stimulating sounds of human voices. Then the stimulation is broken. The loneliness looms in lieu of late the human connection and so I am left alone with my thoughts. So quickly as feelings of connectedness come even more quickly they go. It can be subtly disorienting as residual mixed feelings from sensory stimulation settle in stillness. This is a temporary solution. This is not real life. This is not, this can not be the new human experience. God has made us otherwise. As we hide from our fears we hide from our humanity, we hide from the curse, we hide from reality, and we hide from God.
What are we afraid of? What ought we to fear? We are unsure. Do we more fear the unknown or the loss of the known? We fear losing what we love. What do we love? Ourselves.
Master the Mind 