A Day Without my Mobile

I read it someplace, that we are really trapped by our mobile phone with constant mails, Facebook updates, Instagram uploads and Tweets. Our whole social life is keen only on social networking. Whatever time is left we spend it on Whatsapp.

I am in no way condemning any one as I am one of those people who just cannot live without their phone. My reasons are a bit different from the above. I carry a lot in my phone like important documents that I need to have a look anytime, my kind of music as I don’t get to hear anything good on the  radio, snaps of my Quilled art and different books that I love to read.

So what did I do for 24 hours without my phone? I panicked, got bored watched some TV but then I observed a lot of things. I never imagined going for a walk without music in my ears but when I went for a walk in the evening I noticed how the sunlight sifted through the tree leaves and how simply beautiful the images were drawn out of it. I could let my imagination run amok with it. I felt lost and at the same time I found a wonderful world of nature.

I watched some movies on TV that I use to love watching and then I made my kids watch them too and really enjoyed some time and a break from the soap operas. My kids love to play outside and now we all played football together. None of us is a Pro in it, heck I don’t even know how to tackle a ball but we really enjoyed playing and doing some physical activity.

At night when I need to have a look at what is going on everywhere and then settle into a book.I found an old book from my Graduation days and I started re-reading it. I realised that I really could not go on for long reading it because it was a classic and you really need a dictionary to read them but every time I use to hit a difficult word I started pressing it to know the meaning and foolishly discovered that paper books do not have inbuilt dictionary. I really had to concentrate to be able to read it and comprehend what I was reading.

In all my ramblings without my phone I really found out that we use to have a life without it. Yes our life may seem a bit easier now with everything available at the touch of the hand but then we use to survive without it earlier too.

I am happy to go and pick up my world in the palm of my hand but now I know and hopefully remember that things need not be this complicated. We can have a great phone but we can also have a great life.