For this assignment I wasn't so sure of how to begin. I was nervous to just turn off all my technology for an unknown period of time. So, I started slow and set a timer for 30 minutes. I feel like when I don't know the time, I have a horrible concept of the amount of time that has passed. I think it was five minutes or 45 minutes and am usually way off. By the end of the 30 minutes, I found that this assignment was way easier than I thought it would be and continued to do it. I didn't know what to do at first because my mind was so focused on not using technology that that's all I was thinking about. At first I just started to eat. I realized that everything I was doing was much louder than before. This had to do with the lack of background noise and the lack of mental stimulation from outlets like my phone or a television. All I was thinking about was the sounds of the chip I was eating, crunching in my mouth. Eventually, my air conditioner turned off and the room became extremely quiet. This is when I decided I needed to occupy my mind somehow. Normally, I would just mindlessly scroll through social media as a distraction but I instead needed something to do. This led me to looking at my surroundings for something to do.
As I was sitting in my bed, I realized that I had my sketchbook and a new pack of markers right next to me. I began to doodle in my sketchbook. This kept me occupied for probably an hour, just testing out how to really use the markers and making random doodles. The thing I struggled most with was the television. I'm so used to the background noise of the TV, specifically The Office, playing in the background whenever I'm home. The room kept feeling uncomfortably quiet and my initial reaction to that is TV. However, I pushed through that and sort of began to play songs in my head, almost like a radio but it'd say a couple of lines of a song on repeat. Overall, I found the assignment to be very rewarding. Even though all I did was doodle in my sketchbook, this is something I'd normally not do because I was staring at my phone screen. I felt that it was really relaxing and peaceful for me to not be sitting on my phone mindlessly. I would like to try to do this assignment again and possibly incorporate a little "off" time to my weekly routine.
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