Media is everywhere I look.
I woke up this morning to my phone crashing to the ground as I tried to hit ‘snooze’ for the 4th time.  I sleepily dragged myself away from the warmth and hobbled into my running clothes, grabbed my phone and turned on ‘Strava’ an app designed to track your running routes.  I finished my run and got ready to shower– Wait, first I had to flick through Itunes and find some appropriate shower music.  Really, music makes showers way more fun.  It takes the mediocrity out of washing yourself and replaces the act with a musical based in the bathtub.  As I was jumping out the shower my phone rang… my parents have always been great with timing.  I finished off getting ready while talking to Mum and Dad and then checked ‘Tram Tracker’ on my phone and headed out the door.

Okay, this happened within 1 hour.  1 HOUR.  The amount of media I engaged with before I even left the house to begin my day is staggering.  Media is so powerful that the first thing I do in the morning is check my phone.  Media has become a God.  Media boosts my self-esteem with ‘likes’ and ‘followers’ and keeps me updated on everything happening in the world.  My Dad used to joke around when my siblings and I were little– he used to call my brothers’ names and they would be so intrigued with what they were watching on television that they wouldn’t even respond.  “TV is master,” is what Dad used to say in his robot voice, mocking my brothers’ addiction to the cartoon figures on the screen.  Little did I know how true this “master” idea actually was.  Technology and media is our master.  It rules everything we do… But, is it a bad thing?