I don’t really mind not having my phone. I often leave it home a lot when I am doing something fun with family or friends. So at first I thought this assignment would be a piece of cake. Well, I didn’t think about the fact that I also couldn’t use my laptop and even worse, my iPod.

I am a music junkie. I’m constantly listening to it, playing it, thinking about it, writing it, and learning about it. As you can tell my the photo, my iPod goes everywhere with me. I had to buy an iPod only because I have too much music to fit on my phone. If I’m alone, you can bet a million bucks I’m listening to my iPod. I walk everywhere with my iPod. While on my detox, I realized I do this because I want to avoid social contact and I hate feeling alone.

People often see me while I’m walking to class and yell my name and 95% of the time, I don’t respond and I keep walking because I literally cannot hear them through my loud music. This allows me to avoid social contact! I have places to be and things to do, I often do not want to stop and made uncomfortable small talk with people.

I also listen to music constantly to not feel alone. If my mind is focused on something else besides my thoughts, I feel less detached from the world. I hate only having my own thoughts to occupy my mind, so I use music to block it out.

My iPod is basically my security blanket.

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