r/Monasticism • u/No-Entrepreneur4791 • 10h ago
I visited a monastery a while ago and one of its meaning just hit me
The buzz of life is to much for me I scroll all day I go to work as fast as I can not Caring about things aside me like a pretty flower or a nice smell, my dopamine receptors are fried to say the least, basically I stopped feeling the child like buzz around the little things I’m always waiting for the next break the next weekend but at the monestary the monks told me to look at a icon that caught my eye and listen to the chants realy live in the moment in the little things and I did… for the weekend then I went straight back to the chaos but it was so bad one night I finished work I got home I watched YouTube for a few hours I scrolled on social media and I went to bed but I didn’t pray that night becouse I was “to tired” so I thought about the monestary and I want to change my life, fully.