Fourteen days without cell phone

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s, at first; the first hours of not having it, I felt naked; During the whole time, it seemed to me that something was missing, in addition to feeling that I was missing a lot of things that could be happening.It doesn’t happen to you? Sometimes when I’m gardening and leave my cell phone for a few hours when I pick it up again I think it must have miles of messages, and generally not, or yes, but from Groups that shouldn’t be. Now I haven’t seen WhatsApp for 14 days, and I imagine that the day I restart it I will have about 1000 messages from each group, or from people who tried to contact me in recent days.Sure, I don’t have a line phone, so the solitary confinement is serious. No, no that much. The Internet continues to exist, and I can send messages by Messenger, and see my friends by Zoom when it is sent accordingly and they tell me what time the meeting will be. It happened once in these 14 days.The truth is that I started to write again, on paper, with a pen. I went back to reading books that I had stored in the library. I meditate in silence (and not with the background music I took from my cell phone). The dependency relationship w

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e have with technology is overwhelming. Yes, we live in this century and I need it, more if I want to make my way as a writer, the Internet is a great, great ally.Working from home is one of the best things technology leaves us, I think. And at the same time, it aligns us, it does not leave us time to think freely, being on the phone is almost an addiction.I don’t smoke; not because I don’t like it, but because (besides I know how bad it is for health) I don’t want to depend on something to feel good.The thing is, do not depend on the cigarette, or in anything else which controls us, like those who decide not to depend more on alcohol, or on a person to feel good. In the end, we depend on a gadget that we consciously decide to hold, and it takes our time, and sometimes energy. And time is the most, most valuable thing we have.I do not advise you to throw your cell phone in the middle of the snow as it happened to mine, but sometimes forget that it exists, and go back to being yourself, without having to show the world what we eat, drink, or do without being aware of the outside, it is a great blessing.</article></body>

Fourteen days without a cell phone

Yes, for two weeks I have been without a cell phone. That gizmo that takes up half of our life; maybe more.

How am I writing this? On a desktop computer, just like the old days. So am I not 100% disconnected? No, the truth is I don’t. It’s very difficult in the XXI century with two children and wanting to live from what I write, not connecting to the Internet. But due to circumstances that completely exceeded me (lockdown, snow, etc.), for 14 days I haven’t woken up and grabbed the cell phone, I don’t check every 5 minutes if I have new messages on WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, I don’t see the weather estimation, the news, nor watch my series on the phone. I miss it? Yes, at first; the first hours of not having it, I felt naked; During the whole time, it seemed to me that something was missing, in addition to feeling that I was missing a lot of things that could be happening.

It doesn’t happen to you? Sometimes when I’m gardening and leave my cell phone for a few hours when I pick it up again I think it must have miles of messages, and generally not, or yes, but from Groups that shouldn’t be. Now I haven’t seen WhatsApp for 14 days, and I imagine that the day I restart it I will have about 1000 messages from each group, or from people who tried to contact me in recent days.

Sure, I don’t have a line phone, so the solitary confinement is serious. No, no that much. The Internet continues to exist, and I can send messages by Messenger, and see my friends by Zoom when it is sent accordingly and they tell me what time the meeting will be. It happened once in these 14 days.

The truth is that I started to write again, on paper, with a pen. I went back to reading books that I had stored in the library. I meditate in silence (and not with the background music I took from my cell phone). The dependency relationship we have with technology is overwhelming. Yes, we live in this century and I need it, more if I want to make my way as a writer, the Internet is a great, great ally.

Working from home is one of the best things technology leaves us, I think. And at the same time, it aligns us, it does not leave us time to think freely, being on the phone is almost an addiction.

I don’t smoke; not because I don’t like it, but because (besides I know how bad it is for health) I don’t want to depend on something to feel good.

The thing is, do not depend on the cigarette, or in anything else which controls us, like those who decide not to depend more on alcohol, or on a person to feel good. In the end, we depend on a gadget that we consciously decide to hold, and it takes our time, and sometimes energy. And time is the most, most valuable thing we have.

I do not advise you to throw your cell phone in the middle of the snow as it happened to mine, but sometimes forget that it exists, and go back to being yourself, without having to show the world what we eat, drink, or do without being aware of the outside, it is a great blessing.