Lent..

Tomorrow is 'Pancake day', which not only means eating an excessive amount of fried batter filled with gorgeousness such as nutella (a fave in our kitchen at uni),but it also marks the start of Lent. 40 days before Easter, symbolising the time that Jesus was fasting in the wilderness. Lots of people like to give up stuff at this time, and I've only ever really taken it seriously a few times. A couple of years ago, I managed to give up facebook, but this was before many people were on it, so there really wasn't much point..the year after that, I gave up meat, but I guess that was more of an attention seeking thing from the parents, as my mum did most of the cooking so that meant she'd have to do something special for me. It didn't work out like this, as I had to do all of my own cooking, bad times.
This year, I'm definitely going to give up facebook again. I'm going on a facebook fast. That way it sounds super holy (?) I know that it will be a challenge (probably more of a challenge than giving up chocolate!) it's an addiction. No one cares about my updates or what I've done with my day, or how many words of an assignment that I'm clearly NOT doing whilst refreshing my homepage every 5 seconds, or what random stuff i've found to photograph on my phone. But somehow, when I write an update, I think maybe someone will need to know this vital piece of information. They don't.

A friend of mine said that she was also going to give it up for lent, except for on Sundays, because it's the day of rest... I argued that Jesus didn't check into the local travel inn, kick off his sandals and order a room service buffet cart, just because it was a Sunday. If Jesus had facebook and updated his status, I'm sure they'd be a bit more interesting such as 'Jesus Christ; Today, I raised a man from the dead, healed a blind man, walked on water and preached on top of a mount. Man, I'm beat' 10million likes. Much better than the standard 'I am angry at the world and I want you all to know that I am angry with the world and make you angry too.. grrrrrrrrr' Yep.
So. I'm giving it up for a while, maybe I'll go on it on Sunday 10th April, that dreaded day I turn 20 *eek*...but apart from that, no.



Beth x