My Favorite Place My Room Essay

My favorite spot has been and will always be my room. My room is a perfect space designed and organized (or disorganized) in exactly the way that I need. Every water cup and dirty dish, every penny on the floor, every scratch on the wall is mine. My room is totally unique in that there is not another room in the world that is exactly like it. I’ve always been a homebody and I probably always will be. The sense of comfort, safety, and familiarity puts my mind at ease and lets me go through my day effortlessly.
For my personal narrative, I sat down at the desk at which I do my homework, eat most meals, watch movies, play video games, etc. and I looked. I sat there and observed for a while just to see what I saw. The first thing I noticed were

Most of my day is spent looking at my phone, doing homework on my computer, watching TV, playing video games, etc. There’s so much information available at my fingertips just waiting for me to explore it. However, I do wonder if the old saying that “Too much TV will melt your brain” holds any truth. I mean this in a figurative way more than a literal way, of course. Sven Birkerts warns that overexposure to media can be harmful to us by delegitimizing everyday life. In “The Owl Has Flown” he says that “After a while the sense of scale is attenuated and a relativism resembling cognitive and moral paralysis may result. When everything is permitted, Nietzsche said, we have nihilism; likewise, when everything is happening everywhere, it gets harder to care about anything” (33). It makes sense, as a 19-year-old College student, that I’ve been exposed to much more in my life in terms of world events than someone my age in 1850. When a mass shooting hits the Eastern United States, a massive Earthquake hits Japan, or a civil war breaks out in an African Country, I hear about all of it. This is only possible because of the cell phone I have in my pocket, the TV in my living room, and the internet. So how does this mass amount of never-stop-flowing information affect us? Birkerts may be saying that the more we focus on what’s going on 5,000 miles away from us, the harder it becomes to focus on what’s happening in front of us in our everyday lives. Birkerts also says, “This larger access was once regarded as worldliness-one travelled, knew the life of cities, the ways of diverse people… It has now become the birthright of anyone who owns a television set” (32). Or in my case, a Smartphone. Here he is speaking on how easy it is for people to have access to information you wouldn’t dream of having before TV’s and mass