I watched this colleague send a ‘I will call you later’ message while interrupted by a telephone call during a conversation. That made me reflect on our interactive practices.
Most of us use the phone often when we need something from another person. It is the need that prompts us to make a call. It is true that we would also call others to get in touch with and have a social and friendly conversation.
However from an enquiry with ten friends, I realised that while we would have about twenty or so telephone calls we make or receive during the working hours to ‘get the work done’, there may not be any occasions for personal social or friendly conversations. We tend to substitute personal visits by telephone calls.
The post-modern culture endorses individualism and insular living! This is pushing us to become even more lonely. The social media make us think, react and behave to the popular agenda others set. In fact we can be living impulsively conditioned by the thoughts and aspirations of others.
This calls for conversation times where we begin by telling others in a self disclosure ambience something about our feelings, longings, disappointments or learning. We draw others in to our inner world where we form our values and attitudes. It is for this reason, we need to include Bible, good books, thematic conversations, etc to become our resources for our personal formation.
As we humans we are more than the work we do- we are created beings in the image of God. This makes us to live responsibly communicating the character of God!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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