What are you giving up for lent?

[Halftermhalf]

For me it's social media and sugar.

Ate so much crap today, actually quite looking forward to it.

er no, I'm a practising Christian so not using anything for anything I'm doing what my religion tells me to. That ok?
Oh come on, I’m a practicing Catholic. Tell me you laughed as you wrote this- religious practices have changed over the years and some aspects are in the spirit of what it was previously for, but more aren’t. Lent isn’t the same deal anymore and that’s fine, but your religion is not telling anyone to do anything like the list above 😅

Abstinence

I’d love to give up my excessive worrying, however that is unlikely to happen. Therefore I am giving up carbs for lent.

I'm not. There has been some suggestions in recent years to do something different, giving up your time instead.

Nothing, and don't know anyone who ever has, either.

caring

Sex

Sex. My partner makes me give it up every year... for the year :)

Alcohol and sweets/chocolate/cakes/biscuits

A nun who taught me in school told us there was no shame in using Lent to get slimmer as we would feel better and more able to keep god’s word 🤣

Lent is about sacrifice - specifically prayer, fasting and Almsgiving.

It makes far more sense to do something extra. My grandmother, a very devout Catholic, asked to read one chapter of the letters of St (Paul...???) which I did, every night. She'd lend me her New Testament, though I had my own Bible. When she died I asked if I could have her New Testament, and if they had said yes I'd probably have been reading those letters every single year since, but tthey gave me her Bible. Not the same thing at all.

Anyway, do something extra?

Pancakes! 😀

Alcohol.
Most months have a good excuse why I can't give it up so I do it for Lent. Added benefit is a bloody sight longer than a month, so I feel extra virtuous. But in fairness my liver could probably do with much longer.
I'm not religious but I like a tradition. I can't see the problem with a bit of self restraint and personal discipline.

White water rafting