Serenity Prayer or Keeping Sanity?

There’s an old Serenity Prayer that goes:
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.

Lately, I’m thinking this is more like a Sanity Prayer that should continue:
And don’t forget to take away my wi-fi while I decide.

So much of what we say today is permanent – it is recorded in our emails… listed in comments we make online… there are now even daycare apps that record down to when your child poops #gladitsnotme.   Being behind the veil of a computer or phone makes it easy to spout off whatever we want on whatever we want, forgetting that usually, on the other end are these aliens called humans.  I find myself reading more, learning more and also reacting more from the information overload at hand.

I’m a big proponent in fighting for and working towards change, but over time, I’ve realized that sometimes what I put in email or online isn’t actually helping promote change or discussion.  My words can instead be hurtful or misunderstood.  Emotion can get the best of me, and I’m firing off short phrases that can really only be said face-to-face.  So I’ve decided my best bet is to say the sanity prayer from time to time and practice ‘wi-fi restriction’ until I think through how and if I will join a cause.  It won’t be perfect, and for certain periods of the month I might need to cut myself off for days #moodiness, but I’m hopeful if we can all find our own version of the sanity prayer, we’ll be happier with our technological footprint down the road.