Some people say that we live in the information age. We have the world at our fingertips, literally. Everything we need to know we can access through our smartphones. The other day my sister asked me, "Do you know anyone that doesn't own a mobile phone?" I could not think of one single person.
Then I started to think about it a little more. With everyone with access to a mobile phone and now that most people have data, a new problem arises. As with most technology, we don't always see all the pros and cons immediately. One con that I cannot ignore any longer is that we live in an age of distraction.
Attention spans are at an all-time low and moments when people could be stopping to smell the roses, they don't. They don't even know those rose's exist. They don't see them because all their attention is aimed at a little screen they are carrying in their hand.
In my opinion we need to take vacations from our mobile devices. We need to stop and relearn how to be in the moment. We need to realize that real life can be far more validating than that text you just received or that youtube video you are watching in place of it.
That's so true @bitkat.
We got to stop keeping ourselves distracted from our life's problems and face them.
That's when we feel alive!
We have been mostly using these devices as a distraction than using it for productivity.
Just imagine the device we carry in our pocket has so much potential and we are using just like some 5% potential of it? It's like a pocket supercomputer.