Keep your Phone Aside

I know, I know: I’ll say what you’re thinking for you. I am posting about not using phone on a social media which requires you to view this through your phone. What a hypocrite I am, aren’t I? But hear me out, will you?

The smartphone is perhaps the technology that has skyrocketed faster than anything in the past decade. Making our life easier, all in one, safer and what not: but also making us distant. Closer to people across the world: yes. Distant to people right beside us: definitely. We are so much used to our phone, it fits in our hand like anything; the first thing we glance at when we wake up in the morning, the last thing we look before we drift off to the land of dreams.

I do it too. (Raises hand awkwardly) Guilty!

But since when has engaging in our phone or checking on social media become more important than talking to the person right in front of us? It’s become an addiction hasn’t it? Restaurants offering free Wi-Fi for the same reasons; so much so that a restaurant without Wi-Fi service seems not good enough. This all seemed normal at a point of time, until one day I saw a sign in a café: “We do not have Wi-Fi, talk to each other!” and it just triggered how much we do that. So let us at least keep our phones aside when we are meeting someone, it is rude.