I’m bad with
technology. There, I said it! I’m pretty
sure that the cows from Click Clack Moo: Cows
That Type have a better handle on technology than I do. Typing up a paper and surfing the web is
pretty straightforward, but anything beyond that instantly turns into a maze of
pop ups and error messages. Yet, I survive.
Hearing this, it may come
as a shock that I’m writing about how one piece of technology has positively
impacted my life- my iPhone. Not so much
the actual phone part, but more of the iTunes/Spotify/Pandora/SoundCloud/YouTube
part. This revelation that technology
isn’t all bad hit me one morning on a run in Hilton Head, SC.
Promising my dad that I would,
I grabbed my phone on the way out the door around 5. With one foot out the door I stopped and
grabbed my headphones as well. I’d give
this a try. Up to this point, I had
never run with my music, and I was baffled by anyone who did. Why risk the safety of my child (I mean
phone) for something I enjoyed so little?
Five miles later, I understood.
Nothing particularly magical
happened on that run but I did notice something that I had never thought about,
I couldn’t hear myself breathing. This sounds
silly, but listening to myself breathe was something that bothered me, and
often discouraging me from running farther than what my lungs could handle. Flash forward year, I would not be caught
dead without my music and have gone so far as to replace my running buddies
with my headphones (thus beginning the downward spiral into my antisocial
sophomore cross country season, but that’s another story).
So, has my life really
improved from this experience? It depends
on who you ask. All I know is that I
actually look forward to running, and I owe it all to my frustrating buddy-
technology.
(Considering it takes up the majority of my free time, there will be many running stories. Prepare yourself.)
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