“I cherish my privacy, and woe betide
anyone who tries to interfere with that.”
Jeff Beck
How private a person are
you, or do you lay everything out in the open? I truly hope you are rowing in
the same boat as that of Beck! I think, no, I know that he is absolutely right
to have that stance because many people fail to cherish that little piece of
reality: PRIVACY. In today’s social media crazed world, most of you (and most
others) may think that everything about you must be disclosed, but that is a total
misconception. You have to respect your (and others’) privacy. I always think
of celebrities, bathing in all their money, but I think something they wish to
have more of, is some privacy. Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963), noted that we
live in a world starved for solitude, starved for silence, and starved for the
private: and therefore also starved for meditation and true friendship. In
those days there were not as many tools available as there is today, to subdue
our privacy, and here I specifically refer to the social media platforms and
other information technological gizmos, as touched on earlier. I wonder what he
would have said if he lived today, 55 years on. Now, what exactly does the term privacy
imply? Wikipedia says that privacy is the ability of an
individual or group to seclude themselves, or information about themselves, and
thereby express themselves selectively. What is important here, is the
seclusion aspect. I feel very strongly about the act of making time to seclude
yourself and your information, to make time with and for yourself, and retreat
into a space of privacy. I don’t say you must become a recluse, no, I am
referring to moments of private, still meditation. One’s privacy is very
important. Just like you wear clothes to protect your private parts, so you
have to wear a barrier at times to protect your inner personhood. Let us, therefore, make space to become private, to do less oversharing, and not to be
afraid to dish out Beck’s threat.
Don’t allow anyone to coarsely and
intrusively invade your privacy,
there are so many platforms in place
today that do…
But WOE BETIDE ANYONE WHO
invade my privacy that are so dear to me…
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“Ek koester my privaatheid, en elende vir
enigiemand wie wil probeer om daarmee in te meng.”
Jeff Beck
Hoe privaat is jy as
mens, of laat jy alles omtrent jouself uit in die ope? Ek hoop van harte jy
roei in dieselfde bootjie as die van Beck! Ek dink, nee, ek weet dat Beck absoluut
in die kol is aangaande sy houding jeens die eerbiediging van privaatheid, want
jy sien, ongelukkig is dit so dat te veel mense gruwelooslik daarin misluk om
daardie bietjie PRIVAATHEID in hul lewens te vertroetel. In vandag se wêreld,
wat besot is met die sosiale media, mag meeste van julle (en andere) dink dat
alles aangaande jou in die ope moet wees, maar dit is ‘n miskonsepsie. Dit is
van uiterste belang dat jy jou (en andere se) privaatheid respekteer. Ek dink
baie keer aan al die beroemde mense en sterre, wie ‘n oorvloed van geld en
weelde het, dan wonder ek hoeveel van hulle dit sal verruil vir ‘n bietjie
privaatheid, net om weg te kom uit die openbare sfeer… Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963)
het opgemerk dat ons in ‘n wêreld woon wat van honger omkom, honger vir
afsondering, honger vir stilte, en honger vir privaatheid. Dit is dan ook daarom
dat ons honger is vir meditasie en ware vriendskap. In Clive se dae was daar
nie so baie toestelle soos daar vandag is om sy privaatheid te demp nie. Ek
wonder wat hy sou gesê het as hy vandag, 55 jaar later, geleef het? So, wat
beteken die term privaatheid dan nou eintlik? Volgens Wikipedia is privaatheid
die vermoë van ‘n individu of groep om in afsondering te gaan, hetsy dit
aangaande die self en/of informasie aangaande die self is, en sodoende homself/haarself
of ditself sellektief uit te druk. Wat hier van belang is, is die afsonderings
aspek. Ek voel baie sterk oor die daad van afsondering (van jouself en informasie
aangaande jouself), en nee, ek meen nie daarmee dat jy ‘n kluisenaar moet word nie…
Nee, maak net tyd vir jouself en weet wanneer om terug te tree in jou private
ruimte. Jou privaatheid is regitg baie belangrik. Net soos wat jy klere dra om
jou privaat dele te beskerm, so moet jy ‘n keermuur soms oprig om jou innerlike
menswees te bedek en te beskerm. Laat ons daarom meer tyd en ruimte maak vir
die private sfeer, en skroom nooit om Beck se dreigement hierbo uit te deel nie.
Laat jy toe dat iets of iemand jou
privaatheid ondermyn,
of is dit al die sosiale platforms en
groepsdruk?
Gaan voort, een van die dae het al jou
privaatheid verdwyn,
so komaan… jy moet jouself regruk!
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