My digital detachment journey (Part 1)
This series is my story on how I completely embraced inconvenience and stopped picking up my mobile for everything. This change has made me realize how integrated our society is with this tiny rectangle in our pockets. Even though I say I am detached from the "digital space", I don't mean that I am a technology hater, in fact I am agnostic to the benefit that technology brings into my life. In other words, losing my phone and digital stuff at this moment, will not make my life any different that how I am currently living.
Context on what's to come, I have only YouTube tethering me to an internet life at the moment, and not having premium is making me hate the platform and disconnect completely. This was not a one-day journey, it took me almost 2 years to get to this point in life. To be a bit open here, this digital life feels like a one big push for addiction by advertisers just so they can make some money of us. I have started noticing how miserable life around me is! Even now, I think I consume YouTube because it is cheap and keeps me occupied, not thinking of my problems.
As days go on... As I mature... As I accept the mediocrity in life... the more I am realizing how worse I have let this dependency fester. I am not someone special, I am your average human but with the resilience to throw myself on to walls repeatedly. I think I might have a solution to this addiction with all the trial and error over the years, and I will explore the most effective in the upcoming blogs. Furthermore, I am also not sure whether the solutions will work for you as well as it did for me and my friend, to whom I shared my journey. I am not saying if you are doomscrolling short form you will quit it the next day (it took me 2 years to get to the place I am in right now, and it is still not complete detachment!). But Nevertheless, I hope you will realize that this has to stop one way or another.
Since you read through the entire blog, let me leave you with some homework Notice how many times in a day you check your mobile, it's that simple! Alas, you cannot fix if you don't realize it is broken; If you want to do a bit more than notice, send yourself a text every time you check your mobile.
See you on the other side.
-tux