Phone has become a major part of my body. My brain, eyes, hands and ears connected to it in some way. More than a accessory, necessity, it became a security. As long as I have phone with me, I can track where I am and can be reached by some one in seconds, that feeling itself is very comforting on my long runs. My relation ship with it became like a monkey with coconut in hand(Koti and kobbari chippa) It follows me everywhere I go, sometimes even to restroom 🙂 .
My day starts with my phone wake up alarm in the morning, checking weather forecast for day for kids school activities, their dressing, whats for lunch @ school, connected back to my work via slack messages to follow whats going on, calendar maintained, schedule of events, meetings, selfies, whats app messages, to a call to India on my way to work. And the saga continues till end of day and the last I say good night is to my phone. I really abuse this sweetie..
One day, a stupid software update or whatever happened and I couldn’t access my phone. It will take about a week to get a new phone. My life almost got devastated, I lost my weapon, freaked out thinking I lost my contacts, pictures and all memories..Luckily I have backup enabled and not much I lost other than I disconnected with social network. First day went really horrible looking at my hand and thinking I forgot my phone somewhere…I slowly started migrated towards Google Home for daily information and internet on desktop for email and other communication channels. It took my life back to 15-20 yrs…but I started liking it.
I don’t need to know all the information that pop’s up and whats going on around the world, reduces my anxiety. Sleeping better through the night. Focusing more on in person interaction with friends and family, as I am not aware of whats going in their life recently gives me more interest in checking their well being. Brain working better as its trying to manage as my scheduler and remembering whats coming next. Being very mindful of my surroundings. Lots of time in hand, that I can spend with kids without looking at that 6 inch screen. Life literally came back to real.
This experience of not having a phone is very good. I now have a deep sense of appreciation towards the things i enjoyed before. I may get my phone back in a day or two, will I be able to stick with what I have been doing last week..I doubt it 🙂 Ohh man this phone is an ADDICTION!