global collage

It strikes me how while aimlessly scrolling through my news feed on facebook, the posts are so drastically different. One is a status that says, "GO BIG RED!" And my heart inside says, "Yeah GO BIG RED! Win today! Beat Penn State! Carry on the Husker legacy!" The next won is a shared photo of a man's feet, from a third world country. The shoes on his feet are plastic bottles that have been flattened, and he used some type of root or twine to make them into thongs. And my heart falls and thinks how sad I am for him, and how ironic it is that I'm viewing this on my laptop from my heated dorm. The next is a small collection of blurry photos of a happy couple newly engaged. I smile and my heart leaps in joy because I like them, and they are good for each other. A pep talk from the Cornhuskers facebook page. A shared photo of a comic depicting the difficulty of awakening, "So true," I think. A status: "GO TCU! Win for my birthday!" A shared link of an inspirational contemporary Christian song on You Tube. A shared link of an article raising awareness of anti-LGBT groups and their cruelty.

Facebook has made a global collage. Of all we think, dream, live, believe, love, hate, do, wish, talk, see and hear. Sometimes I think we "share" these things without thinking, our hand on the left-clicker of our computer mouse is disconnected from our brain. Later we browse through everything those we love or don't know have "shared" with our eyes/heart disconnected from our hand. Hmmm.