I am not completely sure how I want to word my title, I have just been dabbling with different ideas but here are a few I just haven’t been able to choose between or decide which best fits my purpose.
• The Art of Being Present
• The Struggle to “Be”
• The Art of Paying Attention
• Noticing the Present
• The Presence of Being (My current top choice, I am leaning more towards this title than any other)
• Remaining Present
In art (and this would include writing) there is a conceptual mantra that expresses value in the “presence in absence.”
For your title, you might consider a flip of this well-known and respected artistic principle: “The Absence of Presence.” This could work as a title, and perhaps an overarching idea in your paper, because it does seems that your purpose in this paper is to shine a light on the fact that we are not present often enough, or deeply enough in our everyday lives. Technology, and particularly mobile devices, are very disrupting and/or dismissive of opportunities for us to be present.
You could also consider using the mantra itself as your title: Presence in Absence
I’m now thinking maybe this is your message as the “absence” of the phone created a profound and meaningful opportunity for you to be “present” during this short time.
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