When in college, a lot of us want to go out and have a great time. Many people take the car service, Uber, so they do not have to worry about getting into a car with a drunk driver. It can be a really big inconvenience when at the bar and Uber has shut down for the night.
As a college student, I do not always have extra money in my pockets to blow on whatever I want to. I went out one night with my friends, but I did not drink because I was the designated mom of the night. I was there to make sure that people in my friend group behaved themselves in a dignified manner.
We were out for a few hours, and I thought it would be a good time to head back to campus. Since we had been dropped off, I thought Uber would be the best option of getting back to campus safely because I was unsure about whether or not my other friends had gone out that night. Being the type of person I am, I completely neglected to look at the time. I went on Uber and realized that there were no Uber drivers in the area available. The walk to campus would be a long ten minutes, and our phones were all at very low percentages.
I was completely worried about whether or not we would be able to make it back. There were five of us total, and as we began our journey back to campus, our phones started to die one by one. A minute into this journey, all the phones were dead. Mine was the last to go. From then on, I felt like I was cut off from the world, and that there was some bigger plan in store for my friends and me.
Walking home with no phone to talk to anyone taught me a little bit about what it meant to be Amish. Being in a city that has a lot of Amish people, I finally had a glimpse into what some of them practice. My friends and I had no way of contacting our friends for those ten minutes, and we felt like we were in our own little bubble for what felt like an eternity. We had been accustomed to always being able to talk on our phone whenever we wanted to. We were not able to check Twitter, Facebook, or even Snapchat our adventure.
When we finally reached campus after our ten-minute adventure, we finally reached campus, and we all looked at one another. Not having our phones on for those few minutes was a wonderful experience. We all agreed that our phones were something that we became too attached to. Those ten minutes gave all of us an experience we will never forget, and we will forever be grateful.
