Keeping up with My Friends
In my early years, my family and I seemed to be up to date with the fast growing technology. We had the things the neighborhood kids were jealous of. Then as I grew older, something happened. All of a sudden, I wasn't the only one on the block with the cool stuff. In fact, my things paled in comparison to my friends' new things. Now I was a bit jealous of my friends. I would ask my dad if we could have some of the same things my friends did, and the answer was always, "No". I didn't understand why he suddenly changed his point of view, but on the whole, it didn't upset me that much. I was a child who could live without technology. I only really cared about it when I was around it too long. Even now, if we didn't have some of the technology we do, or if it was suddenly wiped out, I wouldn't be that distressed.
You see, when I was young, my imagination ran wild. I always had my head in the clouds. Whenever my friends and I would play, I would come up with elaborate plots to pretend, or crafts to do. My friends and I would make up plays, get dressed up and put them on for an audience of parents. Anything and everything in my world could be used in a childhood adventure. There seemed to be no limit to the creativity my mind produced.
It wasn't because I lived in the middle of nowhere with no TV and nothing better to do with my time. In fact, some of my friends would use me for the things we had in my house. Remember Colecovision; that great game system from the early 80's? We were one of the first families to own it, and with every game imaginable. We also played Atari games. None of my friends, or my brother's friends for that matter, had anything like it, and we became very popular for a while....
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...utely nothing. I didn't used to like spending hours in front of a screen, and I still don't, and yet I do it anyway. There's so much on the internet, and so much of it is there just so people can waste their time doing nothing.
I use my laptop every day. I always go on either to do homework, or to talk to my friends, but I wish I didn't have to. E-mail is fast and easy, but I believe it's becoming so impersonal. About a month ago I went out and bought stationery. Now I'm sending a lot more personalized letters than e-mail. It's almost unheard of now to get an actual hand written letter from someone. I think that's sad. Handwritten things are valued more now. No one takes the time to handwrite something to someone else, and when they do, it's a shock. I guess I haven't changed much. I like technology and what it can do, but I still wouldn't mind living without it.
Technology is one of the most important things in everyone’s life. Technology improves every day. in regards to today’s youth, they were born with all the new technological inventions as opposed to our parents. In “Quality Time, Redefined” by Alex Williams, published in the New York Times, the author talks about the positive and negative effects on technology. I enjoyed this reading because it related my personal day to day life. Even though some Americans acknowledge that technology is a part of their everyday life, they do not see the negative outcome of technology, they are blinded only by the positive aspects.
As a child, I experienced a world of imagination where I was able to do anything I
...helle Hackman, a sophomore in high school, realized that her friends, rather than engaging in a conversation, were “more inclined to text each other” (Huffington Post). Michelle also became aware that over forty percent of people were suffering from anxiety when they were separated from the phones. This clearly shows that we are connected to the technology that we use, but we are also suffering from the use of technology. We spend more than half of our entire day using some sort of technology, whether that is a computer, phone, television, or radio. Technology is becoming a prevalent part of our lives, and we cannot live without it. Technology has become our family, and part of us.
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I was always a creative child; it was something I just could not not be. Back then I didn’t know how to be ‘normal.’ While the other children wrote their essays about their mothers and pets or their best friends, I wrote about becoming birds or about ducks building robots. Truly. I suppose I could blame it on my parents – my father for trying to teach me how to read when I was too young and my mother for reading The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein to me as my bedtime story – but I know, truthfully, that it wasn’t their fault. It is no one’s fault, for I do not see my strange imagination as a terrible, abnormal thing. I do know that no one in particular influenced my creativity when I was younger, but I remember being obsessive about certain stories. I remember when I got my first computer – a 16-color piece of, well, garbage that barely ran. But even though it was so old and primitive, it opened new doors for my imagination, and I spent my childhood either playing games about knights and dragons or running around outside and acting out my own unscripted scenari...
Technology has made me feel included excluded. Depending on the day and the technology, I can feel excluded. I am not the only one who has felt excluded by technology, many people in my school have felt this as well. The “nerds”, outcasts, and kids who refuse to conform to social norms have been left out with the use of technology. When my friends hang out together without inviting me and post pictures on snapchat or twitter it hurts my heart a little bit. Knowing that other people feel the same way that I do is also disheartening. It makes me feel like I’m not worth inviting and I know that nobody likes that feeling. I know that the feeling is not directly because of technology but
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I was a pretty normal child. I like to play with friends and family. I would make up what I wanted to do and play house. I also liked to play supermarket. Librarian, and Doctor. I got to be whatever we wanted. It was all pretend though. As, I was watching the video’s for unit six, the video, Tales of Creativity and Play by Tim Brown reminded me of how I used to play. He talked about how we needed trust to play and trust to be creative. That makes sense. I usually only played with family. People how I trust. I played with people around my age. I think that was my trust to be creative, because people around my age would pretend with me. He mentioned exploration and building with your hands. As a child I loved to explore outside and would use my hands to make mud pies and so on. He also mentioned role play. I loved to role play, because I could do anything I wanted. As I grew up I realized it was a lot harder to be a whatever I wanted on the spur of the moment. One thing stuck though. That was my creativity.
As a child, no matter where you grew up or what race you are, you had fun. Obviously not all of the time, as you have responsibilities at all ages and times of your life, but children still have fun. May it be playing with dolls, joining a club, or playing sports, children find a way to enjoy themselves. As well as any aged human, children are creative. Some children might be more creative than others, but all children have a sense of creativity. Being creative can be a positive or a negative feature of a person, as creativity could cause you to find crafty ways to get around the law, while it is also possible to use your creativity to solve problems in stressful situations that could be potentially life threatening. As a child, you
Due to the amount of technology in my household that I grew up with, I feel
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The imagination is a wonderful escapism that allows one to deal with reality in another form.
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