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Would Your Life Be Better If You Didn’t Own A Smartphone? (No seriously)
A Day In The Life Of Someone Who’s Decided To Live Without Screens
You wake up feeling rested as the sun rises; having slept interrupted all through the night.
As you lie in bed, do you check your smartphone? No.
Why not? Because you don’t have one.
You head to the kitchen, pour yourself a coffee and grab a bowl of cereal.
Do you open up your laptop and watch Youtube while you eat? No, because you don’t own a laptop.
Do you sit in front of the TV and watch the news? No, because you don’t own a television.
You eat your cereal, you sip your coffee and you stare into space and think about the day ahead.
You get dressed, hop in your car and drive to work. Your mind is relatively empty. You’re not aware of news headlines from around the world. You’re not aware of what people are writing on Twitter.
You have a healthy self-esteem because you compare yourself to the people in your physical environment rather than digitally perfected influencers on Instagram and Tiktok. To those in the physical space around you, you feel quite attractive in comparison.
