Brianna Gomez

the urge to pick it up and check it and respond right away we are like little monkeys who are just trained to answer right away to this one little noise this little ping and it's so crazy that that ping has the power to either ruin our day or to make it

No little noise that comes from your phone should hold that much power.

I'm sorry.

And that's why I love going on Do Not Disturb because I'm not constantly waiting for a notification to go off every single day or turn your phone on silent, whatever works for you.

But I personally have found that makes such a difference because I don't want my phone to tell me when to go on it.

I decide when I want to go on my phone.

This is my phone.

I'm not my phone's human, but I feel like that is what it has turned into where our phone has almost become an extension of us, where it represents us, right?

Our social media is how people will perceive us.

How fast we respond is how much someone means to us.

Or how much time we spend on a screen affects how productive we are.

It's become literally an attachment to our souls and our minds and our bodies.

And no physical, inanimate object should have that power over our lives.

And this sounds so preachy right now, but I say this because...

i experience it and i've been in it and i have to say like there is no lower point i've been in my life than when i was doing social media full time because my phone then became not only my personal life and my social life but it became my work life too and there was no division between the two and it was all meshing together it's kind of like how people say it's leaving your nine to five to work 24 7.

because there is no divide.

So now I actually love having my little part-time job that I go to once a week because like, wow, it feels good knowing that I have at least one day in the week where I will not be on my phone and I can actually be in reality and interact with people, which is so crazy to say.

We crave casual human interaction away from phones so much that I actually enjoy going to work for that reason alone.

which is great that we have that escape, but you have to let yourself get that escape.

And with all things, they can be good in moderation, but when it becomes something that you are abusing and when it is overtaking your life and it is making you more present there than in your real life,