This issue about reliance on phone is seriously alarming. The truth is that it is disturbing for me. I have observed how often I use my phone and some times, I don't even let go of it except I'm sleeping or doing something that involves full concentration. This has made me to seriously start monitoring my phone usage and I try as much as possible to only do very important stuff on it except on very very free time.
I was trying to enlighten my baby sister about this recently. I traveled home and I saw how glued this young lady was to her phone the whole day. I know she does a lot of work online but she is not taking her time to be cautious of her screen time. She would start with her laptop and then to the phone and then to the iPad and back to the laptop for report until midnight.
This didn't sit down well with me because I didn't like that lifestyle for her at all. Apart from the fact that she is living a sedatory lifestyle, what about the effects of the screen on her eyes and how does all these affect her mental health. I had to talk to her about it and gave her clues on how to reduce it for her own sake.
For me, if it's not a matter of emergency, I can go without a phone for upto twelve hours. Yes, I am not joking. I didn't get here without serious work on myself. Before now, it takes hard work for me not to touch my phone within an hour but it started affecting me. I even had to use my glasses with it at night but it kept on giving me concern so I just had to start working towards it and here I am today.
The whole of yesterday, I can say I used my phone for about three to four hours and that was it until about 1:30 pm this afternoon. I didn't want to write a post so, I just did the things I wanted to do offline and I had a very fulfilled day. I was able to achieve all my plans for the day and even exceeded my expectations. If there was no discipline with the phone, I wouldn't have been able to do all that I did.
I am no longer relying on my phone as I used to be. There are things I do daily like phone calls and coming to Hive but apart from that, every other thing is not a must and can wait till I want to. I have kids to take care of and a home to keep so, I just have to be disciplined and set my priorities right by doing the right thing at the right time.
This is my response to Hive Learners community weekly featured content week 269 episode 2 on the topic: WITHOUT A PHONE
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