There are people who buy gifts for themselves after buying gifts for other people?! Yes there is. This is nothing but my story. When I think back, it was a coincidence that I started owning the Apple Watch, but perhaps it was inevitable that I would become a puppet of the Apple Watch. It’s been three years since I became an avid user, putting aside the excuse that I wasn’t planning on buying it in the first place. Apparently, at the time the Apple Watch was launched, it was said that you should live knowing your blood oxygen saturation level. (You really don’t know what’s going on in the world.)
Now the Apple Watch is like a tattoo. It’s not a metaphor; It is true. I feel it especially in the summer. Even when your arms are exposed to the sun and turn black, the skin in the shade of the Apple Watch remains white. If you suffer from vitiligo and are trying to hide any remaining watch marks, you won’t be able to walk around without your Apple Watch. They are inseparable. Should we see it as some sort of virtuous circle? In this way, daily life is constantly scientifically monitored by Apple Watch.
I’m also using the Apple Watch right now.
If you ask me why I bought an Apple Watch, I’ll tell you it’s because I wanted to see the numbers. I wanted to know how much I move, what my heart rate is and if my running pace is improving. True to my wishes, the Apple Watch recorded every moment without error. It was amazing. It became a new fact that my heart was beating.
But at a certain point I had a strange feeling. When the Apple Watch became a thing, strangely enough, I felt like I couldn’t get rid of it. I don’t think I own the Apple Watch, but rather the Apple Watch owns this body. Guests were firmly transported. I couldn’t shake the feeling that I had become a puppet.
What is a puppet? The dictionary definition is “a person who plays with manipulation (source: Naver).” Playing with manipulation… My pride was hurt, but I couldn’t deny it. Because I’m really being manipulated. The way Apple Watch controls me is indirect rather than direct.
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First. Apple Watch evaluates me in three aspects. Moving (kcal), exercising (minutes), getting up (times). Of course, the goal is something I set for myself, but whether or not I have completed the circle is a sufficient indicator to evaluate my daily activity.
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second. The Apple Watch also manipulates me through the carrot of a monthly challenge goal achievement badge. The Apple Watch presents me with its challenges every month. For example, something like “Reach the exercise ring 15 times in one month.” If you complete it, the difficulty level of next month’s activity will increase, and if you don’t complete it, it will be lowered. To have a peaceful month, you have to close your eyes and ignore this month’s tasks, but it’s not easy. Because when you complete a task you are awarded a badge. This badge really has no meaning. No rice or soup is provided. However, because it looks good when you collect it, the desire to collect it becomes like a fireplace. So, I try to complete the monthly mission as directed every month.
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third. Apple Watch also provides badges when you reach monthly missions and limited special challenge objectives. And this badge is particularly nice, perhaps because it is only awarded after completing a special mission. So you can’t do it. If you want to dance for a badge, do it, if you want to do yoga, do it, and if you have to exercise for more than 30 minutes, do it. There’s no way to avoid moving your body in various ways to collect badges.
It wasn’t until I found myself dancing around trying to get a badge that I finally realized I was being controlled by the Apple Watch. When I mentioned this to a friend, he wisely suggested that it would be okay not to attach any meaning to the alarms or badges on the Apple Watch. So, dreaming of freedom, I walked around without my Apple Watch on purpose. However, the Apple Watch filled up quickly as if it had a magnet on its wrist. In this way my daily life is continuously observed, whether it is insufficient or excessive.
Oh my gosh, I’ll know when Earth Day, Yoga Day, and Dance Day are! However, when you play with the Apple Watch’s cute tricks, you end up using “what a day” as an excuse to run for no reason. The same goes for days that are not “what and which day”. Walk a little further and try to stand up.
If you think of life as the sum of the things your body experiences, it’s certainly fun to be able to move a little more, whether under the control of your Apple Watch or something else. So, aside from the fact that exercising without an Apple Watch isn’t exercise (?), it’s okay to be a puppet!
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