Day 2: Media Deprivation

Day 2 of the media deprivation project started off much better than Saturday when I first woke up. I only checked to see if I had missed calls or messages from anyone over night and as tempted as I was, I ignored my urge to check my Facebook to see what would be taking place during the day. I started my day at the gym, and decided to stay longer than usual because it is easy to get away with listening to music and glancing at the news on the TV every once in a while. My day continued with a trip to La Cantera mall where I got to go enjoy my favorite activity ever… people watching! I feel that whenever I get bored I always end up people watching in public places, and it seemed to fit in well with this project because it doesn’t require any sort of media. After about an hour of people watching and walking around the mall, I got back in my car and turned on the radio… you can call it habit I guess, but I quickly turned it off and continued on down the road. I finished up my day at the pool once again and to my surprise I didn’t get burned at all! If there is one thing that I came to realize during this media deprivation project, it is that I’m not really needy when it comes to media. I’m always on the go and like I said before, all of the media just makes it easier to be portable. I don’t base my life on media, other than using it for getting organized and getting people together to go do something out in public or to spend a night in with friends. I have thought that maybe this project was easier to do during the spring or summer time because people can just go outside and escape the media, rather than having this final at the beginning of winter break where one would most likely be cooped up inside and be more tempted to use media.