Tabbi Coffman #2: iwrite

iWalk

                

               When I was younger, I was a “bigger girl”. I remember first being stressed about my weight in the fifth grade when our gym teacher weighed all of us and weighed 116 pounds. *insert horrified gasp here*. Now that I’m older that really wasn’t that big of a deal, but that flashback is to move into the topic of ~TeChNoLoGy~, because also around this time I was the proud owner of a maroon colored Blackberry cellphone. I thought I was very cool.

               

              Me and that phone made it through three years together, and the positive impact came from it when my mom so generously let me purchase ten 99₵ songs to put on it. And my god it was amazing. I was able to listen to music on my phone!

                

              And more importantly, the positive impact came in from having music on my phone when I started walking and listening at the same time.

They say that if you walk for at least thirty minutes a day it does wonders for your health, and boy they weren’t kidding. Having my phone act as an ipod I was suddenly normal sized. All of my clothes were way too big! I discovered that I had collar bones! It was a magical transformation! (…Did the fact that I hit puberty and grew five inches contribute? Hell yes, but this is about celebrating technology not the pituitary gland)

                

            This may not seem like that big of a deal, but it was to me. And there are plenty of other ways phones, computers, ipods, and tablets have had an impact in my life but this was the first and the most important.