Thanksgiving Myself Research Paper

Removing myself from my phone over Thanksgiving break sounded tough. When you don’t have school you just want to relax and be by yourself. Although, I didn’t exactly have a choice in doing this because we would be writing a reflection essay on it when I went back to school. Even though I hadn’t really formulated a plan for this, I was surprised when Thanksgiving break presented itself with many opportunities to remove myself from my phone.
The first opportunity to remove myself from my phone wasn’t really an opportunity. I had gotten really behind on my school work leading up to Thanksgiving break and the main reason for that was because I was distracted by my phone and video games. When my mom found out she took my phone away from me for a solid day and whenever I was catching up on my late work. …show more content…
There were many positive things that I got out of this experience such as getting missing work done, interacting with my family, giving my eyes relief, and allowing myself to think about other things rather than what was on my phone. I didn’t experience a whole lot of bad from this experience except for the fact I had to hook up the old dusty home phone to contact my parents Sunday night when they were at church small group.
Based on the results of removing myself from social technology, I found that it’s quite healthy for your mind and inner relationships to have a good amount of down time from social technology. Although I noticed after that I never went a whole day without touching my phone or a computer. I think it might have been better or interesting to see how I fared going a whole day without touching my phone or a computer. In conclusion, our world shouldn’t revolve around the latest tweets or the newest video games. We should pay more attention to the things that aren’t on a bright screen and engage with