15 Days Without a Phone: What I Learned

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Welcome new and usual visitors to my blog.

Today the topic of which I'm going to talk to you is being without a phone.

The truth is that smartphones today are something that has become essential for most people.

And it is that with all this great wave of recent times of creating content and people who show others that making videos and doing stupid recordings and silly things or simply doing reviews of places where they eat and show different types of food and earn money for that content, then we have a large number of people and not only young people who want to delve into that method of making a living easily using a phone.

There is a large number of people around the world that we can see through YouTube as they go down the streets recording with their cell phones and they show people the trips they make, the food they eat and the places where they go. Many are really interesting because they offer urban explorations, recipes of things they do at home recording with the phone, and others because they simply show the challenges or the famous challenges that become viral through the phone and that has brought many controversies.

I really think this has made the dependence on cell phones become an addiction that psychologically the human being or the person cannot live without looking at the phone all the time, and this creates anxiety and this addiction of not having the phone. I can really live without a phone or without a computer. It has touched me in fact recently and on many occasions the power to have to live without a phone or without a computer.

Recently my monitor was damaged, so I did not have access to my computer for four or five days, and this affected me gravely, not from the point of view of addiction, but that I am someone who lives the contents that I do and not having a monitor during all these days affected me economically because I was not generating dividends and income during those days and that is what brings precisely what puts the food on my table.

Then I felt very affected; however, I could live these days without having access to the computer.

It has also happened to me that I have not had a phone for several days because the battery of the phone has been damaged or simply because the phone has had a serious failure and I have not been able to use it, and I have learned to live without the phone.

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Without having the phone during those days, I commented in other publications of the colleagues who did this week that here in Venezuela we were 15 days without electricity. Therefore, during those 15 days, we did not have the way to recharge the battery of my phone.

I could charge the battery of my phone because I have an emergency radio that has a dynamo and that allows, among other functions, to be able to recharge other artifacts via USB with this dynamo, but most people did not have a phone.

And I did not use the emergency battery of this radio to charge my phone; however, I did use it to have my emergency radio and at night to be able to listen to music.

But I spent all those 15 days without looking at the phone, without having access to the phone.

I simply turned on my phone for a little while at night to see if I had new messages or people who would like me to have left me messages to communicate with me, to ask me how I was, and answer them.

But that I did only once a day, and it was like around 10 or 15 minutes that I dedicated myself to answering those messages quickly, and that's it.

Because during the rest of the day, I did not use the phone.

I dedicated myself only to being on the street to talk to people while we did not have access to the phones, while there was no energy, while we overcame all this national shutdown that happened not only where I live but it was at the level of the whole country.

That is, it was not only me who was left without a phone, but it was millions and millions of people.

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I have tried to be without a phone for one or two hours or more, even whole days without touching the phone, without even turning it on, because I have willpower, and it is something with which I have learned to handle it, to control it.

I do not think that the new generations and the new young people need a lot of control, and they are very dependent.

But as I always say, they are generations of stupid people, people who have been brainwashed and who believe that everything that appears on social networks is true, and they are not capable of living without a cell phone.

They are very fragile people, and they do not have willpower.

That shows how weak the new generations are, and it also shows in whose hands the future of the world is.

Then I think it is more necessary to educate the new generations and people in general to learn to live without depending on cell phones because on the day that a great global shutdown occurs or that all cell phones are damaged, people will not know what to do or how to be able to do some work.

Because the first thing they are going to look for is to feel tormented, but they will not have how to look for a video on Google or YouTube of how to do a certain task or a certain thing, and this represents a great problem because people have lost the skills to be dependent only on a cell phone.

So I bet on a world where people can get together as we did before, in a park to play ball, to interact and see each other's faces, and tell jokes and experiences as we did before, that we went on an excursion to a park, to a mountain, and we spent and camped there at night, and we did activities in the mountain such as collecting stones, bird recognition, recognition of flora and fauna, activities that really filled the soul a lot without having to have any device of these smartphones or cell phones.

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