Minimization

I think we tend to minimize things. Things that happen to us, to others, to dogs. They tell us to not take life so seriously, so we minimize. We say people can't see our scars, so they can be covered up.


We are a society of minimizing. We minimize all of our work into the bottom of our screen, and only maximize the things taking priority. These things minimize at the bottom of our computer screens until the computer cannot take it anymore and it shuts off. It overloads and it shuts down. Each time we hope our work is saved automatically and we hope our computers will turn back on.
We are a society acting like robots. We pull up tasks and then minimize them. Minimize them, until we shut down. Each time hoping that we will turn back on.
Really, we should be maximizing. One task at a time, one person at a time, taking it seriously. Devoting yourself to whatever it may be that lights your fire.
Because when we start to minimize the little things, we start to minimize the big things as well. Things like the ache in your own heart, the one that feels like a very large tree is growing roots inside of you and stealing your oxygen. We are minimizing someone else's silent scream for help, as we watch them suffocate themselves from the corner of our screen. And we minimize the hungry man on the corner of our outdoor shopping mall as we start to blame him for some of our own problems. We minimize the things that really matter to us, because we have spent so many nights maximizing the things we think should matter.
Maybe this season of giving and changing, we can challenge ourselves to look inward and see what we are really minimizing, and what deserves to be maximized.