A world without technology

Again, I know. I am meant to be doing economics revision but I thought this opportunity was too good to miss. Whilst scrolling through my facebook feed, I found this video:

It is a video that suggests that technology has become a burden on our society, an invention that is diminishing in returns (economics revision is working!!). We are losing our social life in the real world to a social life obsessed with likes, views and screens; not real people. For me, I know that I am completely guilty. The amount of time that I have spent procrastinating watching YouTube videos, checking Facebook and scrolling through twitter is unimaginable and this video just brought that home to me.

Therefore, I am going to set myself a challenge: to allow myself only an hour of free time on any technology or device a day. No more wasting my time of phones or computers. As said in previous blog posts, my exams in fact start on Monday so there isn't a better time to start taking on this challenge. After typing this, I have just realised how hard this is going to be, but I am up for it. Let's try this for at least three weeks and see what happens...

Disclaimer: I do not count looking up economics terms as "free time".

So, now there is no excuse for me to decide to write more blog posts as part of my procrastination activities. See you on the other side of this experiment!

Please share or join in yourself!

Much love,

Harriet

xxx

How to deal with goodbyes

I know I said I would be back after exams, but I am on a revision break. Writing a blog post can also count as English revision as well as text type revision for Spanish. There is my declaration over!

Well, I decided to write this blog post because tomorrow is my last official day at school as my exams start on Bank Holiday Monday (UK holiday only, thanks IBO!). So while the whole country is having a day off, the IB students of the UK have to come in a sit an exam. Yes, I am bitter. However, getting back to the end of my school career.

This week, I have finally come to terms that the time spent with my amazing IB cohort is coming to an end, which is one of the most saddest things that I think I have had to come to terms with. Today, for example, I said goodbye to one of them who I won't see before exams finally start - it turned into an emotional mess. However, it has hit me that the reason why I am so emotional and sad about these two wonderful years coming to an end is because they were wonderful. Even if other parts of life were not going that smoothly, I still had an amazing support group at school which I am incredibly thankful for. If they were not wonderful, I would be happy to walk out the door and this goodbye would be so much easier.

Therefore, I am saying that hard goodbyes have their downsides, but they are not necessarily permanent due to the fabulous invention of the internet and trains. They also mean they are so very very special people, and you were lucky to have them in you life in the first place.

I thought I end this emotional blog post with something my friend tweeted me that sums up what I want to say but far more eloquently, there are always positive sides.

I will talk soon after exams.

Much love,

Harriet