What I think about life without technology

For Sojourn, a civil rights movement trip I went to my junior year in high school, I had to go 10 days without a computer, cellphone or iPod but I was perfectly fine with that. However for this assignment I found myself wanting to crack many times. I stopped myself because I really didn't want to do the facebook assignment. I wrote down how I was feeling through the 24 hours and I noticed that I'm a lot more irritable without the internet.

I started at 8:30 at night. I wanted to at least catch a glimpse of the Wild @ Senators game because Dany Heatley would be returning to Ottawa for the second time since he got traded and that always spurs hate from the fans. I ended up not finishing the game because I just wanted to start my 24 hours. I turned the wifi off on my phone and put it on airplane mode so that all I could use my phone for was the iPod, since you did say that music was allowed. I was a lot less motivated to do my homework because as a way to ensure that I get my homework done I say I’ll go on tumblr or some other site after I get this assignment done. Since I didn’t have that reinforcement I just didn’t want to do my homework and just go to sleep instead. I was really annoyed that I couldn’t check the scores for the hockey games.

It also made life really inconvenient because if I wanted to meet up with friends in the dining hall during the 24 hours I had to make sure that everything was planned out so that I could find them without actually needing my phone to do that. I got annoyed when I couldn't text my friends about how we talked about hat tricks in Intro to Psych. I woke up badly when I realized I couldn't text my friend to make sure we still had breakfast plans.

I also realized how I use the internet as my outlet for my aggression. I tend to send tweets when something annoys me so that I don't actually have to say it out loud. Not having that out let I was more irritable for the 24 hours.

I noticed how dependent I am on using the internet to make sure I get all my feelings out and I don't have a problem with that at all. I would rather use the internet as my personal journal than to actually talk out loud about my feelings because then I would feel like I'm bothering people.

I like my technology and I don't plan on giving it up again anytime soon.