I've never understood lent. My church has never done it and I don't think I heard about I was into my teenage years. But, what I do understand about lent is that you're supposed to give up something for 40 days and focus on God. I kinda look at it like fasting. Do you normally eat? Yes. Well, give that up for a little and use that time for you and God instead.
What else I don't get is people giving up Facebook and Twitter for lent. I'm not entirely sure why - they both fit into any kind of restricting factor I try to use to describe lent (...give up something you like, ...give up something you spend a lot of time on, etc.). But here's what I think it is:
Go back to the analogy of fasting. If you over-indulge on food, then is fasting the only solution you should be seeking? Should you go straight from gluttony into a fast and then back to gluttony when you're done? No, of course not. You need to fix the issue of over-indulgence. In the same way, I feel like the people who give up Facebook for lent are only addressing the issue for a small portion of time - they haven't gotten to the heart of it. Maybe they need to consider spending less time on it regularly if it's big enough to give up for lent. Otherwise, come Easter, they'll be back on Crackbook creepin' hard on all of their friends. And it'll probably even be worse for a bit while they try to catch up on everything that's happened.
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