Modern life is incomplete without gadgets and we are very much dependent on it. Without them, I guess we don't have much of alternatives available to fulfill that task in given time. Digital gadgets are teaching us how to live in the form of alarms, dieting app, smartwatches with stress mapping, etc. It is helping us to lead a better life and no doubt that it is a boon for modern life.
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However, there is another side of story as well. Digital gadgets has covered us completely and made us so engrossed in them that we are unable to find a equilibrium between digital and physical life. I often go gadgets less and try to minimize my uses. Thanks to google,in form of digital wellbeing, the tech tycoons are also understanding the worth of life, health. Not long ago, one of the popular game PUBG started playing a short audio which says to take breaks in long hauls. People are getting aware of the situation and it's the right time to be actively responsible towards human and gadgets interaction.
In this video, being as a student I have enlisted few points that I see while I am on digital detox. By this way I not only get enough to focus on my physical environment but on myself as well. It helps me to be responsible towards its uses. Gadgets are good but it is also necessary to keep a check on yourself that how much of it you are using effectively or how much of it you are using because of the natural compulsion that you have developed due to prolong uses of digital gadgets.
These are my views and I am sure that your views will cross over with me at some points. Indeed as I said the global action are also visible, UN has also started defining the cases of human health which are directly linked to the use of gadgets over a long period of time.
It's the right time for the action and to keep a check on ourself as well towards the responsible use of gadgets and maintaining the digital-physical balance.
