{"id":855,"date":"2009-03-31T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/03\/what-matt-learned-on-his-feet.html"},"modified":"2009-03-31T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T11:01:00","slug":"what-matt-learned-on-his-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/03\/what-matt-learned-on-his-feet.html","title":{"rendered":"What Matt learned on his feet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319368591512814882\"<\/a>Remember Matt Harding and his delightful dance<\/a> around the world? <\/p>\n

Over at NPR, he’s offered his thoughts<\/a> on what that exercise taught him: <\/p>\n

Here’s what I can report back: People want to feel connected to each other. They want to be heard and seen, and they’re curious to hear and see others from places far away. I share that impulse. It’s part of what drives me to travel. But it’s constantly at odds with another impulse, which is to reduce and contain my exposure to a world that’s way too big for me to comprehend.<\/p>\n

My brain was designed to inhabit a fairly small social network of maybe a few dozen other primates \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a tribe. Beyond that size, I start to get overwhelmed.<\/p>\n

And yet here I am in a world of over 6 billion people, all of whom are now inextricably linked together. I don’t need to travel to influence lives on the other side of the globe. All I have to do is buy a cup of coffee or a tank of gas. My tribe has grown into a single, impossibly vast social network, whether I like it or not. The problem, I believe, isn’t that the world has changed, it’s that my primitive caveman brain hasn’t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check out the rest right here<\/a>. And, while you’re at it, watch that wonderful video again, and smile. We all need it…now, more than ever. <\/p>\n

And a happy H\/T to Julie, the Happy Catholic<\/a>! <\/p>\n

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