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r on diverse apps. You scroll through reels, read posts, and finally look back at your task, and wonder when you are going to complete that, because you wasted most of the time, pre-set for the same.</p><p id="ec52"><b>An eventual detachment from your loved ones</b></p><p id="f5bf">Recently I watched a movie, that left a huge message in my heart, ‘home’- the place where we express and live exactly as how we are. The only place in this whole wide world, where we become ourselves, no acting, no drama, and nothing. You behave in the same way to your parents, who have given birth and raised you for the past 20- 30 years.</p><p id="41c0">We love, we cry, we become sad, emotional, sentimental, ecstatic, anxious, curious, angry, depressed, disappointed, we do all of these inside the four walls of our house, in front of our people, because this is the only place on earth where we can be ourselves. The movie talks about the ego and jealousy, we often absorb by scrolling social media profile pages, and posts, and how it affects our personal lives.</p><p id="fe5e"><b>Human nature amplifies the situation</b></p><p id="8f9c">We as human beings, it is quite natural to get addicted to something, which we know is harmful, yet we show humungous interest in dedicating most of our time, using it. If we go through the posts or reels, or messages and comments normally, just to see what’s going on around, well and good. But, when our activity becomes abnormal, is what we call an addiction.</p><p id="06fb">A social media addiction, comparing ourselves to others, taking everything straight into our heart, rather than to brain, and taking time to analyze what’s right, and what’s wrong wouldn’t be a good trend to follow. We get detached from our people, our parents, and our siblings, and often get lost in a magical world for hours, not paying any attention to what’s happening under the same roof, but anxious to know what happened around the world.</p><p id="c442"><b>Time for a self-analysis</b></p><p id="e5a9">Time and tide wait for none. So if you are stuck up in your life, messing up here and there, yet trying to figure out what’s happening with you, if you are someone who spends an entire day checking your phones randomly, wit

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Addiction can hit anyone

Up until the last decade, addiction was more focused on just a couple of aspects. Smoking, alcohol drinking, and misuse of drugs were a few among them. But are you addicted otherwise, but not to any of these?

What is your idea of an ‘addiction’?

Anything that takes our time, effort, or money, and causes mental or physical ailments, either for a short term or a long term can be considered as an ‘addiction’. I know there would be 100s of controversial statements regarding this. However, there would be many out there, who feel ‘this makes sense. Well, this is for that minor community, in the hope that people understand the real value of time and life in general.

Social media addiction effect

Smartphones have a lot of benefits, no offense. If smartphones weren’t invented, we wouldn’t have had the quality of life that we enjoy today. But, keeping your hands close to your chest, feeling the words from your heart, how many of you can say this, “I miss something in life, even while I hold the best iPhone available in the world today.”

Even when I hold my ordinary android phone, scroll through all the apps every 5 minutes, checking the status, updates, likes, comments, and shares, I don’t realize that I am spending half of my day, being addicted to some kind of media, text, image, video or audio on my smartphone.

Being connected to the world, and your fellow human beings is an inevitable part of life. You need to be in touch with others for a happy, and healthy life. But, you take your phone to check that one notification and often end up spending half an hour on diverse apps. You scroll through reels, read posts, and finally look back at your task, and wonder when you are going to complete that, because you wasted most of the time, pre-set for the same.

An eventual detachment from your loved ones

Recently I watched a movie, that left a huge message in my heart, ‘home’- the place where we express and live exactly as how we are. The only place in this whole wide world, where we become ourselves, no acting, no drama, and nothing. You behave in the same way to your parents, who have given birth and raised you for the past 20- 30 years.

We love, we cry, we become sad, emotional, sentimental, ecstatic, anxious, curious, angry, depressed, disappointed, we do all of these inside the four walls of our house, in front of our people, because this is the only place on earth where we can be ourselves. The movie talks about the ego and jealousy, we often absorb by scrolling social media profile pages, and posts, and how it affects our personal lives.

Human nature amplifies the situation

We as human beings, it is quite natural to get addicted to something, which we know is harmful, yet we show humungous interest in dedicating most of our time, using it. If we go through the posts or reels, or messages and comments normally, just to see what’s going on around, well and good. But, when our activity becomes abnormal, is what we call an addiction.

A social media addiction, comparing ourselves to others, taking everything straight into our heart, rather than to brain, and taking time to analyze what’s right, and what’s wrong wouldn’t be a good trend to follow. We get detached from our people, our parents, and our siblings, and often get lost in a magical world for hours, not paying any attention to what’s happening under the same roof, but anxious to know what happened around the world.

Time for a self-analysis

Time and tide wait for none. So if you are stuck up in your life, messing up here and there, yet trying to figure out what’s happening with you, if you are someone who spends an entire day checking your phones randomly, without no particular goal or aim, time to take a break. There are a lot of useful apps to enhance your daily productivity, to make you better every day.

It would be great If we can spend some time, finding and using those wonderful apps during the major productive hours of the day, and save up some leisure time to enjoy the reels and pics on social media. This way you won’t miss out on any fun, yet have a very attached family life, and productive and healthy days, all together.

“It is not enough to be busy… The question is: what are we busy about?”

-Henry David Thoreau