Week 4 - Eaot Progress

The topic I decided in the end to focus on this project is “quality time”, as I do think the topic would be fun and interesting to explore with, and there are things that I’m not familiar with in the topic, which expands my curiosity in exploring around.

In order to find out the idea and the message of the topic, I first have to understand what “quality time” is. From my research, I can conclude that quality time is that you spend giving your full attention to someone or something without having to deal with other things at the same time. The quality of time that was talked about by people differs for each as each of us has a different perspective of quality time and the feelings might be different.

After understanding what quality time is, I looked into how people define quality time. Jonathan Estrin wrote that “The way we spend our time defines who we are.” I also found a quote that was meaningful and brought me some inspiration, which is: “Do more things that make you forget to check your phone.” - Unknown

If I were to look into the reason behind people defining their view of quality time, the scope would be too wide as different people have different perspectives on quality of time, and the moment of “quality time feeling” for everyone is different. Here are some research and observation I made by looking at what the general community deemed as quality time.

Instead, I found this video of a person explaining his view and opinion about quality time. Quality time it’s when you show and receive love by spending time with people and it’s not just the time it’s a quality time like as in I’m on my phone and someone that I love is with me and they have a love language of quality time. We could be watching a movie together and if I’m on my phone you have we spent two hours together in a sentence. Love to give yourself time and give your time to things.

From the video, I was shown how he defined quality time in different contexts, and how he perceived good moments by spending time. He also showed some examples of quality time love language in the context of Christian culture.

One example that was very helpful to help me see the other side of quality time was an example where he mentioned that quality time people don't like to express. It shocks me how people want to have to express what they need because now if those are forced it feels unauthentic. This can bring a bad impact on life in a different context. There were much more examples that have been given by Albaner C. Eugene Jr. in the video that has inspired me and led me to find the killing idea of this topic.

In the end, I decided that the message I would like to bring out in this project would be to help the public to look at the impact of quality time in different moments while associating them with our life. What are we really seeing/ enjoying/ appreciating/ feeling as quality?

Reference

https://simpleasthatblog.com/do-more-things-that-make-you-forget-to-check-your-phone/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jIXLovX2Jk