Enslaved by a Smartphone

Imagine waking up to a day you can't find our smartphone, nor the computer set that stood in the corner of the living room of the house. You try to look out for it everywhere but end up in a state of confusion and chaos. You panic, thinking you've been robbed. In a fearful manner, you run to the cupboard and check all your valuable things to find every single penny, all your precious things safely lying in their place. Where could your phone and computer disappear with all the other things safe and intact in the house?

You rush outside and ask your neighbors if they've seen your missing belongings but their replies are just too shocking and hard to believe. None of them know what you are talking about. You are the only one who knows what a smartphone is, or computer is. People are beginning to call you insane and ignore you.

Then, you realize you've just woken up from a dream about a so-called "smartphone" and a computer. You begin to think about how good it would have been if the dream came true.  

You have nothing to do at the moment, no long chats to engage in on the smartphone, nothing to scroll down and like posts of unknown people, no selfies to click and share, no games to play or things to watch at the tip of your fingers, no more shopping from home or ordering food whenever and wherever you are...the dream seems to be so thrilling that you cannot stop thinking about it.

What if one day we wake up and find out that it was all a dream? What if there is nothing called as a smartphone? It feels close to impossible to live without our phones. We have become so dependent on them that we forget to even look around us. People on our friend list have become much more important than the ones around us. We often forget to acknowledge the things our family does for us but never forget to like the pictures posted by complete strangers.

If we ask ourselves a question, what is the first thing we do when we wake up, I'm sure most will say that they check their phones. It is sad but true that we have become slaves of our phones, instead of it being the other way round. Is there a day we can spend without taking a look at our phones? There is no denying that smartphones have made our lives much easier but are we utilizing the technology the right way? Or are we using it to such an extent that we forget to live our lives to the fullest? Are we using technology or is it consuming us? Can't we make time for things the right way?

Learning to prioritize people and things close to us and not behind the tiny screen in our hand is important. Only when we learn to live our lives maintaining a balance between all that makes us happy and things that are vital, not forgetting the right proportion of technology, by not being overly dependent on it, will we live a great life.