Sometimes some questions hit you so hard that you jump to grab it and start writing. The same happened here while reading those question-based prompts for writing this week's weekend experience initiative, and here a particular question hit me so hard that I opened my note app instantly. So, here I am, hear me out.
Maybe the most unexpected thing you gonna hear from me, something insuperable in our day-to-day life. For me, it's like an addiction that has been eating me alive. Like every two-way sword, it's just hurting me instead of aiding me in my productive things.
Hell yeah, I am talking about my smartphone, this one is the root of most of the hardships I am struggling with right now, and also for the ones that are yet to come. This smartphone addiction did harm me thousands of times more than it had helped me, literally thousands of times. Time is the most precious thing in our lives, and this particular thing is the most favorite as well for this to eat. Every day, a huge portion of the time gets eaten by this, on what? The ratio of something meaningful is close to none, all for some addictive stuff that works like nicotine, affecting me both directly and indirectly.
The counter question will be how I am gonna live without this, it's almost an impossible thing as everything around us is designed like that. Well, I will go for these button phones, and I have my PC to back me up. I have a habit of not doing anything unproductive while I am sitting on my PC. I keep my browsers separate so that the algorithms don't get mixed. Organize the stuff in such a manner that I am always focused. I know the same can be said with smartphones that the main culprits are my habits, not the phone, but this is what it is, I am drowned in this so deeply that it can't be fixed without up. So yeah, I wanna throw away my smartphone and go back to analog and embrace my PC more and more with a hope for productive times. I know the debates but this is what I want right fuc***ing now. I wish I could do that.
What could be the second one? I jumped in with the thought of one, and moving my head, round and round to pick another. Ummmmmmm……my earbuds! It took me more than thirty minutes on what I could throw away forever and came to this as I am already very short on that list to pick. Earbuds are like a pain in my ass as I am prone to losing them, yeah they fell off my ears and some just hurts. They are great while traveling but again, the charging thing is another pain for me as I just use them and throw them in my drawer, I don't remember about charging them unless I see them dead. So it happened many times that I am going out while packing everything in the last hour and their battery is dead and got no time to charge.
I am more than happy with my wired ones, they last long as well and are better in terms of price-to-performance comparisons.
So yeah, this is it, here I picked the two things that I would pick to part ways forever, I know I would be able to live without them, one is gonna be really hard but is the best one if I could have done it.