She nudged me again the other day. Very gentle on the wrist, almost shy. She only wants the best. “Time to get up!” flashed on her display. A little daring, right in the middle of the performance of Shakespeare’s “What You Want” in the Munich Volkstheater. Row ten, place six. On the other hand, following the smartwatch’s health tip would also have been a strong sign of visibility. Wasn’t it Fritz Perls, the inventor of Gestalt therapy, who said: When the legitimate needs of the individual collide with the conventions of a group, this can trigger a neurosis? So it’s better to get up, show yourself and, well, say it in front of everyone: I’m doing what’s good for me!
But I stayed seated, which seemed to upset the clock. By the end of the performance, she sent me a number of breaking news from the SZ to my wrist, as well as a phone call and the message that there was still a real chance of closing the three rings: moving (red), training (green) and standing (blue).
Since she replaced the beautiful old automatic watch, she has been watching over my life. In the evening she reminds us that it’s time to go to bed, she gives training tips (“Squats – but how deep?”) and gives out rewards: for the bike ride to Linderhof Castle (110.94 kilometers, 2783 calories, 831 meters in altitude, 127 average heart rate) there were four awards – including for a 400 percent movement goal. Cool!
It’s a shame that the smartwatch doesn’t get along so well with the body fat scale. The blood pressure app also measures without being networked. You could compose a veritable symphony from all this data, provided you also take oxygen saturation and ECG into account.
Only in the evening, the smartwatch itself seems a little tired. She practically begs to be put on the induction charger again before she goes to bed. This takes about half an hour. A risky period because the body remains unobserved during this time. But you can also use the break to caress the old automatic watch and ask yourself whether you still have all the cups in the cupboard.
It’s Friday, 11:46 a.m. Six minutes ago the pulse was 75 BPM. The weather advisory shows alert level medium. The temperature is six degrees. It’s cloudy. The clock says: “Keep it up! You’re unstoppable.” Time to get up.