24-Hour Fast Research Paper

After the 24-hour fast, I discovered that I basically cannot live the life I live without mass media. Even after I turned off my phone for approximately 23 hours, I was still surrounded by media. Whether that was the pictures on the walls of my room, practicing choral music during a six and half hour rehearsal, drawing in my notebook, or taking a shower. In short, the only time I was actually fasting from media was the 10 hours I was sleeping. However, even then I could have been dreaming of scenarios or people I encountered through the media. The media is basically inescapable since I live in an urban city, am a (music) student and it is 2017. Because of this, I decided to fast mainly from using my phone and computer. I turned my phone off …show more content…
Before the rehearsal, I got ready for the day by curling my hair, making oatmeal, and brushing my teeth. I brought my notebook to rehearsal to record my thoughts and activities during a short five minute break periods. One of the main things I noticed while being without my phone is that using your phone is often the default way to look busy and avoid awkwardly sitting without talking with anyone. It was hard to make myself look productive without my phone so I often resorted to writing in my notebook. Even though singing is a simple phenomenon that often requires no additional technology, we often had to use the internet or the computer to listen to recordings of the songs we were going to perform for the concert. We did this to learn and analyze their faults and apply it to our own approach to the piece. We also used the recordings to learn the song and correct our pitches. This obviously wouldn’t have been a possibility a hundred years ago, which shows that even timeless activities such as singing in a choir heavily rely on media and technology. During our lunch break, I realized the richness of face to face interactions that are not influenced by the