Yes! I don't know how it happens, I don't know how do I arrange the money, I don't know why do I do it but I do find a hell of reason to do it and I DO IT. I am sure there are many people like me who have fallen prey to this cycle of changing phones. Today I am going to discuss my phone journey in depth and try and find out the underlying reason behind this phenomenon.
From Nokia to Blackberry to iPhone to OnePlus:
Initially I didn't think much when I wanted to change a phone. I just told dad and somehow I would get one. Selling the old one for some cash, add some extra cash and get a new or a second hand phone of some different make. It's just a phone, why do I even need to think about it?
Well, for today's youth, their phone is everything. The Phone is the first thing you see in the morning and the last thing you see at night. In fact if you think deeply you spend a LOT of time on your phone looking at that small screen and pressing away.
If you continue at the average of 4 hours per day and live an average lifespan you would have spent approximately 8 years looking at that screen.
What could you not do in 8 years!
Achieve your career ambition?
Earn enough money to buy that car?
Go on your dream vacation?
Is it bad? NO. Phones are meant to make our life easier and better. If one is able to justify the time & energy spent on that phone by achieving something significant then its great. The problem is we just use it to consume Media, we don't use it to produce something. (good topic for another article)
Also slowly we are getting in a situation where we want something new every now and then. We get bored quickly, be it relationships or your cell phone! This is something that needs to be changed and it needs to be changed quickly as it can have serious repercussions on the thinking patterns of the human mind. We need to stabilise, we need to settle at some point and that should be soon.
So from my end I will try to stop buying a new phone every 6 months and restrict on screen time to 2 hours! Let us see where I go with it!
You too try it out!
From Nokia to Blackberry to iPhone to OnePlus:
Initially I didn't think much when I wanted to change a phone. I just told dad and somehow I would get one. Selling the old one for some cash, add some extra cash and get a new or a second hand phone of some different make. It's just a phone, why do I even need to think about it?
Well, for today's youth, their phone is everything. The Phone is the first thing you see in the morning and the last thing you see at night. In fact if you think deeply you spend a LOT of time on your phone looking at that small screen and pressing away.
If you continue at the average of 4 hours per day and live an average lifespan you would have spent approximately 8 years looking at that screen.
What could you not do in 8 years!
Achieve your career ambition?
Earn enough money to buy that car?
Go on your dream vacation?
Is it bad? NO. Phones are meant to make our life easier and better. If one is able to justify the time & energy spent on that phone by achieving something significant then its great. The problem is we just use it to consume Media, we don't use it to produce something. (good topic for another article)
Also slowly we are getting in a situation where we want something new every now and then. We get bored quickly, be it relationships or your cell phone! This is something that needs to be changed and it needs to be changed quickly as it can have serious repercussions on the thinking patterns of the human mind. We need to stabilise, we need to settle at some point and that should be soon.
So from my end I will try to stop buying a new phone every 6 months and restrict on screen time to 2 hours! Let us see where I go with it!
You too try it out!
good thought...
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