It's never the smartphone that destroys your life
One of my juniors told me: “I’m done, I'm wasted, I am a loser who only know play mobile phone. After surfing on social media, then launch Pokemon Go. I regret every night before bedtime, but the next day I continue doing the same thing, are you like this too?"
Me? Are you joking! I’m not that childish! Of course I don’t, I’m a noble person, I won’t do such a thing.
I'm sorry, I lied, actually I am the kind of person who can play mobile phone while pooping.
According to research, 62% of people wake up in the morning, the first thing they do is to look at their phones. On weekends, they can stay on the bed with the phone for the whole morning.
So, will it ruin a person by playing phone?
If you do not like to study, do not like to learn, it is none of your mobile phone business. What destroys you is the heavy procrastination and the self-discipline.
More than once, on various occasions, many people have complained to me about their addiction on the smartphone. And some people say that by looking at the app in the each other's phone, will know if they are same as you.
It is quite true.
Why?
All the apps in our cell phone are grouped, and I usually divide them into these three categories:
1. The app that makes you happy. Facebook, Whatsapp, Tinder, Amazon and all kinds of games.
2. The app that makes your life convenient. Uber, Android Pay, Waze and a variety of travel app.
3, The App that improves yourself. Translate apps, course learning apps and various kinds of learning apps.
The installation ratio of these three types of apps does not indicate who is more advanced, but it can show how different each person's time management tendencies are.
Those who have never considered installing the third category are more likely to become slaves to their smartphones, and are more likely to fall into the anxiety trap of playing with smartphone all day long.
This gadget is not the culprit of our anxieties, it's just a temporary exit for procrastination.
Different type of apps only contribute to the richness of entertainment, making it easier for you to migrate your laziness and procrastination.
This is not difficult to understand, because when people in anxiety, they will find other things to act busy to divert their attention.
Take 10,000 step back, if we fall back to the time when there is no cell phone, will you not become a loser?
Well, now, you have now fallen back to that no cell phone era.
That era is probably:
Your dad's been out of town. You can only stand on the doorstep waiting for him to come back; You fell in love with the hot-blooded girl, you can only write to express your love; At night when you pooping, you can only look and listen to every piece of poop drop into the water.
These three scenes, which seem to be so common in place, almost every scene carries a subtle opportunity to pull the distance between people.
The smartphone does replace our original way of life to a certain degree, but it never shakes away your wisdom.
You have been delaying the things you should be done, this will stimulate your anxiety day after day, the more anxious you are, the more you want to play your smartphone and let yourself to looks like you have something to do. The more you play, the more you will delay.
There is also good on the smartphone, but it is difficult for a person with less self-control to find.
Many people thought when they surfing on their phones every day, they thought that they are actively in the era of integration, and strive to understand the whole world. In fact, a lot of information we surfed every day are useless information.
Only passive absorption without output thinking for that part of information, you will know what is called wasted.
Those who can say they will put down their smartphones and really put down, usually know the truth that not all the information is valuable.
People who don't have own values and actions are too easy to get lost. It is better to stay away from them as far as possible.
Did you realized something?
You carry your phone every day. Keep thinking about someone might have emergency need to find you, but in the end, the one who is looking for you with emergency is not much.
When you put down your phone, you will realize that you didn’t miss anything important, people and things that don't matter will automatically be gone.
You can easily pick up your original life and bring pleasure to your body.
Many people realize that excessive use of smartphones make us miss the good side, so they decided to denounced the smartphone and reject the smartphones. But after a few minutes, they picked up the phone again.
These people never understand a truth, that we can never reject what’s trending.
The enemy is too strong, there is no use in repelling, the smartphone has replaced your original life, but it can not replace your weak time management ability and the bad habits of delaying tasks.
Don't say "I understand all these, is just that I’m too lazy to restrain myself ..." No! You don’t understand!
Many people have the “lazy cancer”, but they still think that they can’t achieve is because they are not working hard enough. In fact, they are just hiding behind their laziness.
Just like a lot of people who keep delaying tasks and blame on the phone, they thought that they will become better when they stay away from the phone.
Your phone did not kidnap you, it's not the phone that destroys you, it’s just that you never really wanted anything.
We are blinded by the convenience itself, that we no longer see what we are missing out in life. But you are right, we should not try to blame it on anything or anyone but ourselves.
Oh, I am reading and writing this on a tab.
Go Teammalaysia !
Yeah! I'm glad we are on the same page :)
What type tablet you are using? I'm planning to get one for myself.
Nothing beats the iPad in tablet usage, can't say the same for phones though.