Off!

Had a quiet day. Kept the phone off. Decided to rest. I’m rushing around trying to do things and I just can’t keep my energy levels up. Oh for the days of old rotary phones, where you spoke to people to each other on landlines. Maybe for an hour at a time, but you couldn’t type on it, or use a built in calculator. No emails or wittering messages. No book of the face. Just simple conversations….

And the calls were possibly once a week, or more likely monthly. Maybe from a friend or a relative, no total strangers, no jokes or pokes. The only interesting thing was the speaking clock!

Unplugged

How do you know when it’s time to unplug? What do you do to make it happen?

Sometimes I’m on my phone for hours, scrolling, flicking between pages and videos. Watching, absorbing, wasting precious time!

How to stop? I have to think about the time. I look at the clock and if its after 1am I leave the sites I am on, close them. Retreat back into reality.

The trouble is it’s cozy having online friends. People that think the same way, or slightly differently to how I do. Lucky to not have too much animosity. I know when to ignore rude comments, not get drawn in. But the Internet is easy to get embroiled in. You just have to switch off “and go and do something less boring instead” as the phrase went on an old TV show called “Why don’t you?”.