When I was at home this weekend I decided to do my 15 minute quiet reflection. I was in my room and I was home alone. It was midday and it was sunny out and good weather. As I sat there I thought about how nice it was to be home and have some quiet time for myself which I don’t usually get when I’m here at school.

I was thinking about Turkle’s views about how we as a society are addicted to out phones and to technology and I did have a strong urge to check my phone and text people back. I also was thinking since I was sitting there and doing nothing that I wanted to watch some Netflix instead. But I really sat there for the 15 minutes and thought about some things in my life instead of giving in to the technology cravings. I thought about which places in my room that I needed to spend some time cleaning because some German exchange students would be staying in my room in the next few weeks. I planned out what had to be cleaned and how I would do it. I also decided that I would condense my clothes into just a couple drawers to give the exchange students some empty drawers for their clothing.