I never knew how addicted I was to my phone until I didn’t have a phone for only 8 hours. My phone broke one day while I was at school. It was the beginning of my day and I just knew that my day was going to be horrible. The whole time I just couldn’t stop thinking about how many people were trying to contact me. I just thought I was missing out on so much and now when I think about it all I can is “It was only 8 hours for crying out loud!”
It’s almost like we live in a world where life isn't what is going on outside our windows doesn’t exist if it’s not on our phone screens. Some of us can’t even hold conversations with each other anymore without depending on spellcheck. It almost makes me wonder how much worse life with the increasing technology will be in years to come. It’s so crazy how things have changed even in my little 18 years on this earth. When I was younger (not that it was long ago), I used to spend hours outside. Mosquitoes didn’t phase me. I was such a tomboy. You couldn't keep me off the bike or out of the dirt.
I got my first phone in the 5th grade. A simple flip phone that I needed minutes for but that was fine with me because I still went to play outside and now I could call my friends and tell them to join me but boy oh boy the second phone came when I was in the 2nd grade and this is around the time when I became a girly girl and actually cared about avoiding clown pants and a stripped shirt. This phone was like a knockoff blackberry but please don’t think I didn’t appreciate it. I really thought I was doing something big with my little pick phone that in my mind, “complimented my school uniform”.
I’ve definitely got off topic in that short time. You’re probably wondering if I ever got my phone fixed. Yes, my phone did get fixed. I got it fixed after school that day and guess what... All those people that I thought tried to contact me, didn't. NO ONE tried to reach me actually. Like NO ONE! No Twitter notifications, or Snapchats, or group messages, or text, calls, NOTHING! I could've gone another 8 hours. At this point where my phone one rings a little more now, but I personally feel like I can go without my phone sometimes. I’ll get paperback books for the mobile ones and as uncommon as it has become, I’ll start holding conversations on the opposite end of my phone. We should all try it because I'm my 8 hours without my phone and social media, I held some conversations with some amazing people without abbreviations, and spell check, and emojis, and it felt amazing.
PUT THE PHONES DOWN AND BE HUMANS!!! IT’S FUN!
