Avni Patel Thompson

Where is our technology, like, where is it removing our ability to be present?

Okay, yes, I do appreciate where I'm not going to be maybe lost ever again.

But like, yes, sometimes you do want to be lost.

That's a values thing.

Again, where I'm trying to come to is like, be intentional about what your values are.

And can your technology, you know, speak to that?

Let me explore that because I think that's where I want to, at least in the next version, try to go take the mundane examples and take them to a more interesting kind of place.

I want to share like an example or like a story that I think could have a place, but I'm not sure if it does.

We moved down to the Bay and my daughters are 10 and 12.

So they had to start new schools in different schools.

My youngest is in fifth grade in a new school.

Like it's a small community.

So all of these kids have known each other since they were fetuses.

And then she found herself like coming into the school.

Unbeknownst to us on the first day of school, she hits like extreme anxiety, like will not go in, will not do anything, like just terrified.

And just happens on the day where she's like,

crying and terrified in front of like these peers and like at the door.

The problem for me as a parent is that I know and my husband knows that like when she gets there and gets over the anxiety part of it, she's going to enjoy that experience and she's going to regret that she didn't do it.

And so our job is to go figure out how can we find her a way to go do that?

We found a way for her to go.