Thoreau Challenge Blog #2

I am going to tell you about the weekend Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Friday I did not use any technology other than for club/school related things, except for this one moment. I went over to a friends house to play games and eat dinner. We were sitting there and my friend uses his laptop to look up this commercial and turns the screen to us. I sit there and watch it for about and minute and then I realize what I am doing and totally freak out an get up and walk away. I didn't even realize I was watching it, which got me thinking. Can we really give up technology when we are so used to just seeing around us? The fact that you really have to force your self to give up technology is a little scary to me, because that is literally what is happening. I have to force myself not to use technology for things that are not required for class. Several times this weekend I realized that I kept thinking, " I really want to watch TV." I really would just love to text my friends back home but I have to resist the urge. On Saturday me and some friends went to Ardentsville so I did not really have an urge to use any technology, until I realize it is my little cousins birthday, so I had to break the challenge for a moment and call her, because not saying happy birthday would have been rude. However that was the only time I used technology that day, other than for work. Today I went to Kings Gap I had to make two phone calls to see if people were coming with or not, I couldn't avoid it, again I was faced with a situation in which I had no choice but to use technology. I have two days left and so far I think I am doing really good. I don't think that technology has that much hold on my life. Actually I feel like the more days I spend not using technology, the easier it is getting to not use it. However I can honestly say I can't want for Tuesday evening to get here so I can call my friends, I can get on Facebook, watch TV and answer my texts! Also I can't wait for Tuesday because I am sick of trying to find ways to get a hold of people without using technology, it is really hard to find people when they don't text you and tell you where they are. I can make it two more days.