Apparently a few cars back there was an incident featuring a couple of drivers possibly having a squabble that might have been serious.
That was a few cars back though. Yet in the car we were in, it was a great drama. The driver jumped out of her skin and a great fuss was raised in the car about what happened. Long after something that happened far behind them was a long way in their past, they were still talking about it as though it was their drama.
There’s a lot to be thankful for the information age in which we live. Information is on tap – literally. It was one thing to have a library and a few newspapers and your authority figures to give you information. Then you had your one or two television channels and the radio. Then things exploded to the point that an individual can access information on someone on the other side of the globe as it happens. It’s a wonder that we take for granted because it’s the norm.
For all the information, however, there’s not an increase in the wisdom. So a lot of things being said and told come from sources but do we know how to handle that information? Is that information really for us? Is that information really true? How does that information fit with other information received. So knowledge has certainly increased for sure, but we’re not noticeably the better for it.
What doesn’t help is that a lot of the time we’re consuming this information and although we get an opinion on it and it helps us with our views on things, there’s little time to really be clinical about if it’s really helping us. Often we can get wrapped up about things going in the lives of people that we don’t know and we don’t control. Get so wrapped up that we have to express our opinion and get anxious about how things might turn out. Lives in worry and distress over that which they can do nothing – why?
The quest for wisdom is needed more than ever. We have this one life. There’s enough drama going on figuring out answers to identity, purpose and the desired outcome of it all. We soon realise the scope of influence attainable. We will also get a good grip on what’s worth taking on board. What’s worth pursuing. What’s worth investing energy in. What’s to do with all that anxiety. Get wisdom on the matter.
One of the first things to get on the issue is to recognise that a lot of what goes on around us might be dramatic – but it’s not our drama. Learning that enables us to keep the focus on what matters.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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