Sprouting Roots blog on 'Medium' (a writing platform)
- Sprouting Roots
- Dec 21, 2022
- 3 min read
A brief update on another platform I'm using to share about my journey, this one specifically about my relationship with digital technology.
I wanted to explore Medium (a platform for people to share their stories and writings) so I decided to make it a designated space for sharing my journey with reflecting and questioning my relationship with screens, my smartphone, the internet and social media.
If this is a topic that interests you and you'd like to read more about my story, I invite you to read about it there.
ABOUT
(from Sprouting Roots Medium profile)
Sprouting Roots on Medium will be a documentation of my journey into exploring life with minimising the use of digital technology; my journey of shifting from a highly digital dependant life, to one where I spend more time off-screen.
As of Oct 2022, I'm still using an iPhone, a Mac laptop, a kindle reader, Instagram, Pinterest and YouTube (I don't have any other social media accounts) and other day to day stuff like emails and texting etc.
It's been a long process to get to where I am now where I barely have any social media accounts and feel the inspiration (and not just the desperation) to actualise a more off-screen, grounded and centred life rather than just continuously 'thinking' about doing it.
My current idea and hope is to slowly move away from using a smartphone, any social media accounts and living with more respect for my time on digital technology and use it wisely and with intention.
I hope to eventually try not owning an smartphone for a period of my life to experiment with what quality of life can be like, and how I feel physically, psychologically, emotionally and spiritually. This may translate to digital technology in general, but I feel that's quite a long way away yet.
What I've written so far
"Mindless scrolling on Instagram; Cravings of watching films and TV shows; Immediately thinking about watching YouTube videos when I open my laptop; Spending hours upon hours daily on screens—
Sure signs that digital technology has a huge grip on my life.
And yet, a question arises: “what can I do about this?”
How do I change something that is so fundamentally interwoven in modern society?..."
Next Medium post on the works
I'm currently writing another post, this one being about the relationship between digital technology and a sedentary lifestyle, which is mostly inspired by Katy Bowman's work, and from her book Movement Matters.
Katy is a biomechanic and "is changing the way we move and think about our need for movement" [1]. I'm inspired by how she approaches our human need to move regularly, and how it goes beyond 'doing exercise' or being 'fit'.
I hope to publish it soon! I'm currently writing the last part of the post and after some proof-reading will release it.
Why am I using Medium???
Isn't this blog enough? You may wonder. It is. And yet --
I've been curious about Medium years now, and when I discovered it's free to create an account and to publish stories, I was excited to explore it even further.
The main purpose of it is to have a designated space for reflecting about digital technology. I will be sharing some of my journey here on the blog as well, but it feels important somehow to have a separate space for this as it's quite a complex, and sometimes confusing, topic to unpack.
I find having a space like Medium can help me stay focused and on the topic and be more intentional with what I'm wanting to express and share.
I'll see how I go. It may end up being more complicated and stressful having two different accounts for writing and blogging, but I'll navigate that if and when it arrives.
I enjoy writing, and this invites me to explore how to deepen my writing practice and experimenting with Medium as a platform teaches me different approaches to sharing writing.
LINKS:
Medium (platform)
#1: Thinking About Living Without a Smartphone (first post)
[1] Katy Bowman
Movement Matters by Katy Bowman (book)
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