“My phone is my life” is the most used phrase in this 21st century, especially by the Gen Alphas and the Gen Z baddies. When i hear people utter this statement in the past, especially this present generation, i see it as nothing more than hypocrisy of the highest level, and that’s because i feel and know there’s more to life than being confined to a small screen that performs several functions. What do you mean by your phone is your life? Don’t you have a life outside it? Can’t you do other interesting things offline? Why must it be your phone always? These were the questions i usually ask back then…
I got several answers from the people around me back then, but then non of them still made sense to me, i saw everything as an excuse to be lazy. That was the best definition I could give to their unhealthy obsession with their phones. I was like this until i had a taste of their life years ago, this should be around 6-7 years ago when i was gifted a phone. My very first phone was a hand me down NOKIA 3310 phone, this was a phone that was brought back to life many years after it went into extinction. This time it came back better and advanced, it even had a browser that could facebook and do other stuffs like google searches, a button phone, crazy stuff right 😂? Oh yeah. This was the phone i was gifted…
In a week i already opened a facebook account for myself to see what life is being enjoyed over there. My classmates Facebook usernames were the first set of names that was suggested to me to add up immediately I finished setting up my account, and just like that i added all of them in a flash. Two weeks later i already had over a hundred friends. Chatting became more interesting and before i knew it i became glued to my phone. Facebook got me hooked big time back then, and just like that I became a lost cause…
It was at this point i realized the life over there was a whole different life, it was more interesting with friends. Gradually, my narrative started changing and before i knew it, i became part of the my phone is my life geng. In summary, my phone is still my life till date, there’s no Fox without his phone…
When it comes to banning of phones in my home, I don’t think i have ever considered something like that, and that’s mainly because even i as a person, I can’t do without my phone. So if i can’t do without my phone, do you think my siblings will be able to do without it? No, they won’t…
The only set of people who can and will always have a thought like this are my parents. Oh yeah, i think this is something almost all Nigerian parents have in common. If they have their way, seizing our phones when it’s time for dinner or family movie is something they can never get tired of doing, and that’s exactly because we have abused that device too much…
Now they see it as nothing other than a source of distraction, especially to youths. I think banning of phones during periods like this is normal, especially if it’s a hinderance to bonding and connection. Doing something like this is fair, but then I doubt such thing can still be done in a century like this. Who still does family movie night in a century like this, lol. We don’t do something like this in my family, so that’s out…
Even family dinner is something we haven’t done in years, lol. Na rich people dey get family dinner and movie nights, no be for middle class family like us, lol. Where we wan see am 😂…
In conclusion, infringement of rights is far from a country like ours, if our governments aren’t following through on something like this, do you think our parents would give a damn about a right like infringement of rights?, especially when it’s concerning their family, Lol, dey play. This is not applicable to Nigerian parents…
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