oh my gosh.

My dear friend Liz has made an incredible point. We idolize television, movies, entertainment because it enables us to passively waste our time and to not put our hearts out there and love people. Liz told me that she sees television taking away our ability to love, and if we're making it our idol, then that is true.

I know it's true in my own life, because I feel so much more free, more alive in the summers when I'm working at camp, in the woods, no electronic nonsense to interfere with my friendships [which develop so much more deeply and quickly there than anywhere else] or my spiritual growth. Then, I come back to Kutztown and am satisfied [well, not really, just too passive to argue] with spending "quality time" with friends in renting movies and laying around. It's much more difficult in winter, I suppose, when calling up folks for a game of Ultimate Frisbee is less probable due to the weather, but when I think back to how many times this semester I gathered with friends for, say, a board game [2 - RISK at P. Nate's house and Apples to Apples at the Cliffs of Insanity], and then I think of the untold instances of settling for passive, unsociable movie-watching [watching football games on television together can still be a social event] - it just breaks my heart that I myself am not loving these people, not putting myself in situations where I'll actually talk to them and get to know them.

Maybe we just live in a society filled with hardened hearts who have no desire to open up to others and to create real friendships.

I guess what I'm saying is that I wanna turn off the idiot box.