The Amish challenge

In this challenge, as all my classmates, I gave up one technological artifact that I am used to use it. At the beginning, I did not know which thing I was going to give up because I do not use too much my cellphone or Facebook. I usually use them only for school purposes, nothing else. But after I think a little more, I realized that I listen to music all day, and sometimes at night.

In my case thus, I chose not to listen music wearing headphones, and maybe for some people it does not seem too much, but for me was quite difficult because I enjoy too much listening to music while I am doing my homework, studying for some class or only because I am bored. In fact, the music that I listen change my mood. So, this is why I gave this up, because, in some way, I was depending a lot on that.

During the three days of the challenge, I decided to hide my headphones to prevent myself of using them. I was a little uncomfortable during the day, and I started to hear the conversation from other people. No one can imagine what kind of conversations you can hear. Some of them were very interesting, but also sometimes you can hear very strange stories.

At the end, I realized I can live without listening to music with my headphone which is a great relief because it shows me I do not need many things that sometimes I think I could not live without, and I think this is the moral. Many things are not essential to live, humanity lived without them for many years and they survived quite well.