How can I stop scrolling?
A major news event was unfolding in the United States, where I live. Unsure about how to think about it, I decided to log on to social media to see what other people were saying. The people I followed on this app often look at the world the way I do; I thought that seeing their takes on this issue would help me understand it better.
Huh. That was a startling thought. Rely on social media to tell me what to think? Actually, I had been spending more time than I wanted to on my phone—not just reading people’s perspectives on the news but also mindlessly scrolling during work breaks or at the end of a long day.
This was the opposite of one of my favorite things I’d learned in Christian Science Sunday School, which was to think deeply about the concepts I was learning. Teachers encouraged my Sunday School classmates and me to ask questions and discuss anything we were wondering about or struggling with. And I’d also learned that the ideas I needed didn’t come just from my conversations with others but also from praying and seeking answers from God.
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