We Are Being TRICKED…
What if I asked you, “Can you live without your phone?” What would you answer? Honestly… What would you answer? I believe anyone that has the luxury of reading this post and who has a cell phone would/SHOULD answer, “No. I can not live without my phone.” 100% of us would answer, “Nope. Not possible. I NEED my phone.” “An ABSOLUTE NECESSITY.” Think about that for a second… That is CRAZINESS!
We DO NOT NEED our phones to live. We have been tricked. We ARE BEING TRICKED…
And yet, we HAVE been CONVINCED! We ARE convinced! “Life is just NOT POSSIBLE without our cell phones CONSTANTLY NEARBY…” “We NEED them!” “They are simply ESSENTIAL to getting through the day.” These statements MIGHT be true… but we SHOULD CHANGE the question.
What if we asked this question instead? ”Can my phone live without me?”
I can answer this question for you! The answer is an emphatic “NO!” (At least for the time-being. I am not so certain about the future AT ALL… I have some worries.) Your cell phone IS A TOOL. It is NOT A LIFE FORCE! Please don’t be tricked into the false thinking “you can not live without your phone”… maybe think instead “How can I ‘use’ my phone to make my life better today?”
(I work with kids and young adults, and I see the amount of damage and the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual stressors cell phones and how we use them and our thinking about them are causing the youth. I just worry… and I hope we can all just take some moments today and “just think”… for ourselves… without our phones. I think this is one of the MAIN REASONS I write… because I look around, and I worry, and I just want things to be better.)