At this point, I might as well be a cyborg, with my phone being an extension of myself. There's really never a day that I don't use it. And even though people around me try to fault me for giving so much attention to this piece of technology, I refuse to lose sight of why I do what I do.
You see, there have been times when I felt like I should take some time off technology and just do other kinds of things. When I try to do that, however, it feels nearly impossible. Okay, it's not "nearly impossible," but the point is that it really isn't very feasible on most days.
I grew up used to interacting with gadgets, mostly mobile phones and PCs, and I have gone deeper into having my life intertwined with them, especially in the last seven years. From staying informed to being more productive to earning remotely, my everyday devices—particularly my phone and PC—continue to be essentials that play a crucial role.
The world's gone digital, and to keep up with the world requires that one be conversant with "what's happening," or else they'd be left behind. And so, I spend most of my time connected with my phone to achieve a wide variety of things daily.
I can do hundreds of things with my smartphone alone now. Okay, perhaps not literally. And so I often have it in my hands most of the day, or it is the first thing I look at when I wake up, as well as the last thing before I retire for bed at night. It may not be the healthiest of practices, but it might very well continue that way until I attain certain levels of stability in many aspects of my life.
PC or mobile phone, I am usually in places like Hive, Discord, WhatsApp, YouTube, X, Netflix, ChatGPT, Lichess, and Spotify. The list is way longer, actually. And so my screentime is usually massive each day.
Accounting for just my phone alone, I'll say my screen time is usually around 12 hours. When I think of it as being half a day, I realise it's no small amount of time spent in front of screens. I may have been spending a lot of time watching films on Netflix these days, though.
I looked through the stats of my screen time on my phone and found something surprising. Discord often has a high percentage. Well, it's not that surprising, actually, as most people know I love Discord and using it. My Discord activities are often Hive-related, however, so it makes sense to see similar stats on my browsers.
Today turned out to be a really good day. I mailed my workouts today (even though I wasn't feeling like it initially), rested well, and did a couple of things offline for the weekend. To still find that my screen time was about 12 hours made me realise how involved my phone is in my daily life.
I really don't experience adverse effects from how much time I spend on my phone looking at my screen. There may be some days when I'd need to rest and not stay on my phone, but they aren't frequent.
There's a reason why the sky is blue. It's because the atmosphere protects us from the blue frequencies in the sunlight by bouncing them off. Blue light isn't great for our eyes. I know this, so I use "reading mode" regularly, especially at night.
That puts less strain on my eyes when I use my phone at night. The colour theme becomes warmer and much more comfortable for me to look at my screen. And there's an extra feature, Paper, that makes my screen look more like, you know, paper.
As long as I get enough sleep, do not strain my eyes, maintain productivity, and earn with my mobile phone, my screen time isn't an issue for me. A man's got to do what he has to do to thrive.
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