No network media... piece of cake! No phone? no problem, i don't get calls or texts anyway. No networking? no problem, i barely have any friends. No internet? hmm that's a tough one but challenge accepted. So here it goes; the day without internet or social networking...
I woke up this morning thinking to myself, no computer or phone basically no technology past the 1900s. I thought it was a piece of cake but the first hour went by and it was the longest hour I have ever experienced. I sat there on my bed just thinking, all sorts of idea and imagination coming into my mind, flooding my brain endlessly as i cannot shake these images off. One idea led to another like staring out my window and I saw this bird. Next question in my head, which direction is it flying to? Where is it going? how long will it fly? will it land someone? When will it eat... one question lead to another and the topic suddenly changed to why is the grass so green? Then further analysis went along saying the a photosynthetic pigment called chlorophyll is the reason why the grass is green. Then i started thinking about the process in which plants take light energy and convert it to oxygen and glucose. Then it just keeps going on for the next hour or two until i decided I should just go out and exercise. So i went to the gym, done some crazy amount of workout but then only another hour has past by. Now that i depleted all my energy i should eat and probably do some unfinished projects or homework. After doing my homework, I just sat there again bored out of my mind. This day made me realize how much I miss my computer and my games and online social interactions. But with every challenge that always come to me, i will always try and beat it. Thats the kind of person I am. So now i decided i will do something that i have never done before when i was bored. It was .... read a book.. for fun... That's something that I've never ever considered doing. Sure i read articles for fun but books are entirely different. After reading a few pages of the book, i got really bored and realized this is why i don't read books. So i just sat there again just staring out my window just thinking what to do next. Then I got tired of thinking and took a nap.
After I woke from my nap, i went and just played basketball for a while. After that, its time to go to work. Never have i been excited to go to work before! It made me appreciate human to human contact so much more when i went to work since i get very little of it. Most of my conversations are usually just online chatting but this human to human contact... my my what an interesting trait. Anyway after work it was already 10pm, its time to go to bed so that i can sleep away this painful misery of not having my games and computer.
At first i thought this was an easy assignment.. but nooooo i couldn't be so wrong. This assignment really shows how people or how I relied on social media and computers in order to past the time. Back in the days when we were kids, there wasn't such thing as a high speed internet or a very good computer.. Nope.. no one actually owned a computer when I was a kid. But that didn't stop us kids from having fun... we would adventure, play tag, handball, basketball, etc all sorts of games that we don't even do now. My my, how technology has made us so fragile that we cannot even come up with stuff that is fun anymore because we have computers giving us simple options to do.
Hey! I totally share your pain—I was bored out of my mind as soon as all the distractions were gone. I think you made a really interesting point about how when we were kids, we could have fun doing the must mundane things—like, say, sitting in a sandbox or avoiding stepping on the cracks of the sidewalk! Nowadays, I feel like little kids aren’t getting as much of an opportunity to be creative and imaginative as we were given because technology has become such a massive and unavoidable part of everyday life. Take my little cousin for instance, he’s only one, hasn’t yet learned how to talk, yet he already knows how to unlock an iPhone!! Crazy how quickly and drastically technology can change the experiences of kids growing up in different generations..
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