Putting the phone aside

There is nothing I love more than spending time with my family. After being apart for months, it is so nice to get together and be face to face with those that mean the most to me.  As I was with my family and being in this class, I noticed more than usual the media intake of myself and the people around me. As I've expressed in previous posts about my love for music, I got a better understanding of my undying love for it as I spent time with my family. There is almost always music going on in the background when we are all together. The noise is sometimes forgotten about and at other times we are all singing along to songs that we all love. I realized how much music has been apart of my life and this type of media has such an important part in my life that it was cool to gain an insight into another reason why it is so important to me. Another thing I noticed was cell phone use around my family. Of course there were times when people were swept away onto the online world but for the most part, people put down their phones and really engaged with the people around them. It was enlightening to see how important it is to put phones aside and have face to face interactions. I realized that while phones are amazing in so many ways, it is also amazing to put them down and be involved with what is around us in the moment. I'm grateful for the media that I have but I'm even more grateful for the personal, real, and face to face interactions, conversations and experiences that I have when I put my phone aside.