
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested… So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it.”
I’ve been disturbed by the casual way some of us Christians handle other’s emotions: the propensity all human beings, inside and outside the Church, have of acting as though the internet is a different thing altogether from “real” life.