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| "FEELING POWERLESS IN A “POWER-FULL” WORLD" by Kaely Miller and Carol Duerksen | ||||||||||||
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YOUTH GROUP LESSON 63
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| I watched another friend Allison e-mail her Aunt that same day. It was a long e-mail. She talked about how school was keeping her busy, and about the people she met when she worked as a waitress, and about how her parents were going to be out of town this weekend so she was going to have a few girls over. But she didn’t tell her Aunt about how she dreads school because she feels like the “dumb kid” in her Algebra class, and she feels like the “untalented kid” in her Ceramics class. She didn’t tell her Aunt about how she hates going to work because this guy she works with always brushes up against her even when she’s asked him to stop. She didn’t tell her Aunt about how she’s actually worried about this weekend because some of her girl friends have threatened to bring beer with them and she’s not really into that. And I started wondering - what was the point of that e-mail? Was it really to let her Aunt know how she was doing? Was it really an accurate image of her life? Or was she just going through the motions? My parents tell me that I have this ability to do anything I want to because of the technology today. But secretly I wonder. I wonder what it was like when there weren’t cell phones for everyone to talk on every minute of every day. And I wonder what it was like when there weren’t e-mails we could write and pretend to be okay. What would it be like to always see the other person’s face when you were talking to them? Do you hear so much more through their expression, through the raising of their eyebrows, through their smile, through their grimace? What would it be like to always hear the other person – to really hear them – their tone, their laughter, their anger. Would it be like a completely new dimension to communication? I know it’s probably not a big deal. I know I probably do have the ability to do almost anything I want with technology. But when I watch my friends text while I try talking to them, I know I’ll have to re-say half of what I’ve already told them. And when I hear them tell me just to Facebook them, I know they won’t really get my expression. And I guess – well I guess I just wonder if I’m heard. Really heard. Printable Lesson PDFs |
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