Are We Too Late To Get Out Of This Mess?

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hings that we all can do to keep ourselves in check and to reduce this addiction.</p><ul><li>Keep your phone in “<i>Do Not Disturb” mode </i>when you are working on an important task. Even if you are working for 30 minutes or 2 hours, your phone will not bother you with unwanted notifications.</li><li>When you are idle, just think about something without thinking about your smartphone. Think about the day, the evening you are going to have, or an event you don’t want to miss out on in the future.</li><li>When you are bored, work on a personal project or a hobby that would be engaging enough to take your mind off for a few hours.</li><li>Talk to your friends and family whenever you get a chance. We all have people in our lives who always complain that we don’t call them enough. Hence, we should always take some time to catch up with them. For parents, there should not be any excuses. Instead of a family occasion, we must always talk with our parents and siblings whenever we get a chance.</li><li>Read more often. In a world of Netflix and podcasts, the passion for reading books or articles is on the decline, especially in the younger generation. Reading books for knowledge or hobbies has been around since the <i>history of printing,</i> which dates back to as early as 3500 BCE. Then, only the learned or scholars were the select few who could read to gain knowledge.</li></ul><p id="f29d">I was supposed to write this in my personal journal because I was getting fed up with my own phone addiction, but then I realized that I could not be the only one who has this issue.</p><p id="5757">We are far less present in the environment around us because we are all so preoccupied with our smartphones. We no longer look at each other, which is saddening. Instead, our attention is drawn to our screens.</p><p id="d272">We need to start putting our phones away and keeping them out of socialising. Else, we risk becoming an even more detached, lonely, and less intellectual society. But i

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If you can’t live without your smartphone, then you are addicted too.

For the past few days, I have been thinking a lot about the times when things were simple. When people had more and more time with them to spend quality time with their family and friends, I believe a decade and a half ago, there were no smartphones. I mean, not as powerful as the Androids or the iPhones that we know of today. Nowadays, with everything smartphone-enabled, kids are reluctant to go out and play.

Everyone, including myself, is on their phone almost all the time. Even at the dinner table, nowadays, families are eating their food with their phones in hand. In fact, the other day, I even saw a person walk into a telephone pole because she was staring down at her phone, busy typing away.

I was reading somewhere and I believe it is true to some extent that we are all addicted to using smartphones, without which we just cannot function. The syndrome is called nomophobia.

In moments of boredom, solitude, silence, or idleness, we reach for the phone, simply to check something, and begin searching or scrolling mindlessly. All we crave is entertainment and stimulation.

We are a social animal that learns and grows through interaction, and after modern technology has become accessible via smartphones, interpersonal disconnection is on the rise.

There are subtle things that we all can do to keep ourselves in check and to reduce this addiction.

Keep your phone in “Do Not Disturb” mode when you are working on an important task. Even if you are working for 30 minutes or 2 hours, your phone will not bother you with unwanted notifications.

When you are idle, just think about something without thinking about your smartphone. Think about the day, the evening you are going to have, or an event you don’t want to miss out on in the future.

When you are bored, work on a personal project or a hobby that would be engaging enough to take your mind off for a few hours.

Talk to your friends and family whenever you get a chance. We all have people in our lives who always complain that we don’t call them enough. Hence, we should always take some time to catch up with them. For parents, there should not be any excuses. Instead of a family occasion, we must always talk with our parents and siblings whenever we get a chance.

Read more often. In a world of Netflix and podcasts, the passion for reading books or articles is on the decline, especially in the younger generation. Reading books for knowledge or hobbies has been around since the history of printing, which dates back to as early as 3500 BCE. Then, only the learned or scholars were the select few who could read to gain knowledge.

I was supposed to write this in my personal journal because I was getting fed up with my own phone addiction, but then I realized that I could not be the only one who has this issue.

We are far less present in the environment around us because we are all so preoccupied with our smartphones. We no longer look at each other, which is saddening. Instead, our attention is drawn to our screens.

We need to start putting our phones away and keeping them out of socialising. Else, we risk becoming an even more detached, lonely, and less intellectual society. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

We have the ability to change things. I just hope it doesn’t become too late.

If you enjoyed reading this, you might also find the below articles worth your time.

If you enjoy reading stories that help you learn, live and work better, consider becoming a subscriber. Becoming a member will get you unlimited access to 10000s of stories, articles, and writers. It is just $5 per month. If you sign up using my link, I will earn a small commission that helps me write more articles.