When I read this assignment, I knew it would be kind of difficult for me. Not because I’m overly attached to my phone, I deleted all my social media a while ago so all I really use my phone for is music and communication, but because those yoga/meditation classes are the bane of my existence. Sitting still and doing nothing for any period of time is extremely hard for me. If I’m trying to clear my head and think about my feelings, I usually have to be running or walking or at least listening to music. I’ve never been really good at the whole ‘quiet your mind’ or ‘sit still’ concepts, so any form of meditation is kind of torturous to me. 

The first five minutes of doing this assignment I spent craving a song in the background to distract me. The next five minutes I spent contemplating how pathetic that was. The fact that I needed to distract myself from thinking about my feelings was worrying. The last 5 minutes I spent actually doing the assignment and started to examine my thoughts and feelings. I found myself really studying the past couple weeks and how I felt about them, and it was kind of liberating in a sense. Turns out ignoring your mind isn’t really the best method, although I still found it extremely difficult and probably won’t be doing it again. But maybe when my sisters drag me to those stupid yoga/meditation classes I may actually not despise them once in a while.