Hello, my name is Freddie, and I was a cell phone addict.The addiction began about three years ago, when I had gotten my very first iPhone.
Everything felt so different once I started using it. It felt like a whole new world opened up. It was like I had nothing else to worry about. All I cared about was what all of my social media friends were up to. Not only that, but I was enjoying all of the useless information I was receiving. I just could not get enough of it. I couldn't stop texting, playing games, using Snapchat, scrolling through Facebook and watching endless amounts of Youtube videos.
It got so bad that I would even use my phone at the dinner table. If somebody was talking to me, I could not put all of my attention towards what they were saying. I was too busy being more focused on my phone. It was my number one priority.
It became a major distraction. It prevented me from getting school work done. It turned me into a slacker. It even prevented me from getting the sleep that I needed. I had all of this information in a small, rectangular device. I had this unbelievably gargantuan world in the palm of my hand. However, the real world was the one around me.
One day, I woke up and took a good look at myself in the mirror. My beard was terribly grown out, I needed a haircut and I looked miserable. I asked myself, "What have I become?" I looked a bit lower and noticed the phone in my hand. It was at that moment that I realized what the real problem was. So I turned my phone off, cleaned myself up and continued my day.
At the end of that day, I got back home with a ton of school work finished, and I felt great. I grabbed my phone, turned it on, and set it aside. Ever since then, I began to appreciate what it's like to live in this world.
Sure, I still use my phone just like everyone else. I still text and mindlessly scroll through Facebook every now and then. But my phone isn't my main priority anymore. I focus on living this beautiful thing we call life, and not wasting my time staring at a small screen for hours.
