While I sat at my desk without reaching for my phone to scroll through instagram or listen to music I realized I enjoyed the brief moment of silence. I normally don’t love the quiet since I will go off thinking about things that worry me therefore enhancing my anxiety but this experience was very different. I sat there staring at my pictures, of family and friends, and thought to myself how grateful I am to have these people in my life.

These relationships wouldn’t be such an important part of my life if it wasn’t for my phone, to be completely honest. Through social media and texting I have never gone a day without speaking to the most important people in my life. But on the other hand I built these relationships at a young age when cell phones weren’t a big part of society yet. I got to thinking back to the times when I would have to find the school directory and dial the phone to ask my friend to hang out, and these were times where we didn’t go to someone’s house and sit in the same room on our phones probably snap chatting each other but when we relied on our imagination to create and not rely on technology.  

But in my opinion technology has its pros and cons, its developed a society where there is no excuse to lose contact with a friend but on the other hand has created a world where I personally could not leave home without my phone ever. My phone is a big part of my life and definitely could not live without it, it has become a safety net for many people including me. Maybe I wasn’t reaching for my phone during those 15 minutes but in the back of my mind I wanted to and right after this assignment I did.