This was possibly one of the hardest experiences that I have gone through, not so much physically but mentally. Don't get me wrong, as much as I am a very deep thought person and enjoy personal time and disconnecting. I never knew how much I am addicted or connected to social networking and just digital technology. Now, I honestly found the first couple hours not too bad but then everything I wanted to do was digital, and everything that I have done involved my phone. I couldn't even watch TV because it was digital, I slowly realized I was going to go crazy and this was going to be harder than I thought. Time never felt so slow passing by.
Honestly, I had to just sleep, and do reading like scriptures and what have you. It sucked because I know most people went camping and so it made it convenient to stay off technology, I am not an outdoors person at all. But I did it on a weekend I really didn't have much to do, which was a good and bad thing. So the best way I could distract myself is by playing sports, swim, work and sleep. The evenings was best because I worked til like 11 and I can't even check my phone so it made it easier to then I would just go home and sleep for the next day.
That next morning, was the struggle, because I would wake up and just sit in bed on my phone and slowly wake up. So I just went back to sleep a couple times, and luckily had church so 3 hours passed by. Then I had another Sunday nap so that took another 2 hours. Then, had some down time to spend with friends and just talk about things I haven't been able to talk about in a while, like mission memories, and just scriptures. Ended the night with ward prayer and just hung out the rest of the night and rested.
I honestly going crazy because I never knew whenever I have down time how much I would just go to straight to my phone to keep me distracted. Music is something that I am constantly listening to and another filler for time. So everything that is around me is digital, and I am still learning to disconnect to connect with everyone. I am constantly always on my phone because honestly if things don't catch my attention then I do not pay attention. I noticed that we are constantly a generation that needs to be doing something to feel like we are productive. This assignment made me realize how much I am dependent on my phone. I was honestly going to go crazy but then I had to think to myself, what did I do when I didn't have technology that we have now. Well for one I was younger and so me and my brothers were all living at home and two because I had then we always played sports and did stupid stuff when we had time. I would honestly miss being disconnected, and it is something that I want to work on after this assignment.
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