As Jurgenson puts it, “[f]orgetting one’s phone causes a sort of existential crisis.” One summer, as I boarded a plane to I travel to Los Angeles, California, I accidently left my phone in Seattle, Washington. At first, I was scared that I wasn’t going to be able to survive my trip even though I had a chaperone. At that point, I boiled down the possibilities of why I was so frightened that I did not have my phone. Out of everything that my phone could supply, I missed it because I wasn’t going to be able to call my family and friends, look up scrumptious restaurants, and be able to take photographs. I had my chaperone’s phone to call my family, we already had our restaurants scoped out, and if I was that desperate to take pictures, I could buy a disposable one. People did survive on vacations before cell phones and I was determined to have an electronic free vacation. I ended up having an amazing time in Disneyland, Universal Studios, and Huntington Beach with minimal problems. It is satisfactory to separate yourself from your phone because you can survive. People did it all the time before and we truly do not need a second brain to carry with us all the
As Jurgenson puts it, “[f]orgetting one’s phone causes a sort of existential crisis.” One summer, as I boarded a plane to I travel to Los Angeles, California, I accidently left my phone in Seattle, Washington. At first, I was scared that I wasn’t going to be able to survive my trip even though I had a chaperone. At that point, I boiled down the possibilities of why I was so frightened that I did not have my phone. Out of everything that my phone could supply, I missed it because I wasn’t going to be able to call my family and friends, look up scrumptious restaurants, and be able to take photographs. I had my chaperone’s phone to call my family, we already had our restaurants scoped out, and if I was that desperate to take pictures, I could buy a disposable one. People did survive on vacations before cell phones and I was determined to have an electronic free vacation. I ended up having an amazing time in Disneyland, Universal Studios, and Huntington Beach with minimal problems. It is satisfactory to separate yourself from your phone because you can survive. People did it all the time before and we truly do not need a second brain to carry with us all the