Attached to Gadgets

Oh yes, I’m guilty too! (And this is to remind me…)

It was past nine in the evening after the heavy downpour. A mother got worried for her teenage son who spent the afternoon with his classmates at the mall. She kept on calling  and texting him but she received no response. Later on, the boy arrived home with all the invalid excuses. Though the son had access to technology, he failed to use the gadget effectively. 

Someone said that we are living in “less” times. And so it is that our gadgets are wire-less, our doors are key-less, our youth are job-less, our leaders are shame-less, our relationships are meaning-less, our attitudes are care-less, our values are heart-less and the situation is becoming hope-less. The only way to reverse the situation is to go back to God’s heart and really listen, follow and obey His instructions, and there meet Him, and meet each other as brothers and sisters again. ~Fr. Jerry Orbos, SVD 

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. ~Sydney J. Harris 

I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind! ~author unknown 

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. ~Alice Kahn 

We have become an attached generation ~ attached to work, attached to TV, attached to our cell phones, iPods, computers etc. If we become so attached to things, we may become so detached from people, and even from God.

“Use things, love people.” Not the other way around please! May we have little or no regrets in the end that we loved too little or too late, just because we valued things more than people. Again, remember, money can be recovered, but the life of a person, especially of someone we love, is irreplaceable. ~Fr. Jerry Orbos, SVD

Chasing Happiness

Where can we find happiness? Is it in front or behind us?

Is it in the future or in the past?

The story is told about a young lion that asked his mother: “Where is happiness?” The mother lion responded: “On your tail.” Upon hearing this, the young lion started chasing his tail, and spent the whole day doing so. Seeing the young lion tired and exhausted, the mother lion said: “Son, you don’t chase happiness. Just keep moving forward, and your happiness will follow.” 

Sometimes we make the mistake of pushing too hard the doors ahead of us, when all we needed to do is to pull. Or, trying to chase after a butterfly, when all we need to do is just to sit still, and let the butterfly come to us and settle on our shoulders. ~shared by Fr. Jerry Orbos SVD 

Come to me all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.  ~ Matthew 11:28