Day 188 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - Electronica is the Newest Addiction...
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Lesson 188: Electronica is the Newest Addiction...
Today we are to think about how much we use our electronic devices, internet and social media. Does it make your life better? How do you feel when you spend days, weeks or months away from it?
I personally feel like being on my iPhone has sometimes taken over my life - like I couldn’t live without if I didn’t know what was happening on Facebook. It got so bad, that I wasn’t doing anything productive. I think that’s the trap with having easy access to such platforms – it is too convenient to be on your phone all the time. I even use it in bed when I should be going to sleep. It’s quite terrible.
I have been trying to make more a conscious effort to do something else but be on my phone all the time. I will try to do some other activity that doesn’t have me sitting on my phone all the time. I sometimes just throw my phone aside so I can do anything else.
I think I’d be okay to be away from social media if I had to go without it for a month but I find part of what I do, like blogging, requires me to be on my electronic devices. I find it necessary to be creative in some of the activities I do, but also establishes my connections as well. I do feel like I could go without it if I didn’t have these daily activities in my writing that I want to achieve.
To assess my personal situation, I think it can make my life both better and worse. Worse for when I spend time on it doing nothing and better for when I connect with people on my journey. If I went away on a holiday, I think I could place my phone aside and the whole time and just enjoy life. I think it’s okay to switch off.
