Hello, everyone.
I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learner's featured post. Before technology brought phones, laptops, and other gadgets into our lives, we were actually surviving and enjoying a very happy life, but ever since we were introduced to these accessories, it now feels like our happiness in life depends on them and is tied to them. Sometimes I sit back and I try to remember what those things are that we used to do to stay busy, those things we were involved in, and they helped us stay busy and happy before we got smartphones and other accessories.
Now we live a life where our happiness is tied to our phones and gadgets; the moment the battery dies off, you start feeling like a part of you died with it, you start feeling feverish and restless until you get where to charge it, and then you start to feel at peace again. My friend back then in school will always say, "Our phones and gadgets are not meant to die at all because when they do, we die with them; we become confused." I tend to agree with him because many of us are guilty as charged; once our phones die, we won't even know the next thing to do or what not to do. We start to move from one end of the house, thinking, "Where can we go to charge it up?" or "How can we get power to bring it back to life?"
Those days we had our parents always on our necks as to how we spent too much time on our phones, but guess who spends more time scrolling Facebook reels now? Now even our parents spend so much time on their phones, even more than most of us. That is to say, how deeply technology has eaten deep into our world today. I never believed a time would come where our parents' screen time would ever be this high, but we are currently living in the moment, and it is shocking and only proves how dependent we are on technology and what it has to offer.
As much as we have people who don't spend so much time on their phones, I believe that at least 90% of the world's population spends a lot of time on their phones and gadgets. A greater percentage of the world's population is guilty as charged; we cannot go 24 hours without looking at our screens, and we pick up our phones at intervals even when we are not supposed to, and when allowed, we dwell on it and never want to let go.
The highest I can go without my phone for a day is about 4 or 5 hours, and that is because it is probably charging or just a personal decision because of my screen time. I am more than dependent on my phone; sometimes I use the excuse of saying it is because I work with it, but lately it is starting to feel more like an addiction than actual work. I have seen people addicted to drugs and how they behave when they don't have those drugs with them or on them; that's exactly how we behave when we are away from our phones. We become restless and tired and try to do what it takes to get those drugs.
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