A day without phone or computer
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This morning I realized I spend most of my time looking at screens.
When I'm not looking at my computer, I'm probably checking my
phone. When I'm not checking my phone, I could be watching TV. I
feel like it's gotten worse since working from home, and with the
lockdown. When I'm not looking at my phone for a few minutes I get
anxious. It surely doesn't help having a single phone for personal
and work-related use. When I'm not receiving emails, I get slack
notifications. I could turn it all off, but I would just open each
application to check if everything is "okay".
So here's my idea. Tomorrow, I won't be looking at either my phone
or my computer. Well, mostly. I'm allowed to check my phone 3 times
the whole day, just to make sure nothing urgent came up:
* Once in the morning
* Once in the afternoon
* Once in the evening
And by "checking", it means I can only look at the lockscreen. If
anything urgent requires my immidiate attention, then I'll stop the
experiment and address it. Otherwise... well, I'll have to find
other ways to spend the time. :)
Why am I doing this? I think I owe my brain and eyes some rest. I'm
legitimately curious to know if I will be able to enjoy it and not
be bored to death. A single day without phone or computer will
likely not have crazy effect on me, but maybe it will make me have
other ideas, or maybe it will allow me to discover something
different. Maybe it will just be bad, but I would at least have a
fun story to tell. I might even decide to write about it using good
old pen and paper. And with that said, time for me to shut down the
computer, and start the experiment!
