The media fast was very interesting to me. I am a person who really likes to play games and talk to friends all the time. The media fast was not that difficult for me even with that being what I like to do.
Many people during the media fast had trouble and may have felt anxious about not having their phone. With all that said, the entire day just made me bored. I wasn’t able to talk to my friends or really do anything that I want to do. What I did when I got bored is I started thinking of Magic: The Gathering cards or Dungeons and Dragons ideas to make stories from. I really didn’t get sad, anxious, or mad. I just kind of was bored I couldn’t listen to music or podcasts I didn’t have anything to just pass the time doing. It was quite annoying overall.
It was interesting to do though, I thought that it really showed us as students how much we use the technology and that if that goes away we kinda go crazy as a whole. I think that in this day in age our generation really just use technology a lot and really rely on it. Since we rely on it so heavily it makes people feel uneasy when they are unable to use their technology. One thing that I think helped me not rely on my phone and not feel bad when I don’t have it is being a Boy Scout. Being in Scouts I have been camping many times and when my troop goes camping I don’t bring my phone for the reason if we are camping I want to experience nature and the outdoors more. So not having my phone for a day although being boring wasn’t hard to do for me.
Magic the gathering was really something that helped me get through it. I think that the entire thing really makes me realize that although we rely on technology that there are lots of things that don’t even require getting up and doing things outside, which is another great option, that you can do to just not use technology.
After this entire thing was done I was glad to go online and have things to do again. I was able to listen to music which is really something that I love.