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I Took a Shower the Old Fashioned Way
3 positive things happened when I put aside my mobile phone
Remember the days when the only phone at home was in the kitchen? Hanging on the wall? Maybe at your house, it was on a table near the front door. We were really moving up in the world when we added a phone on the nightstand by the bed.
Do you ever try to remember what in the world you did at red lights? Or while you were waiting for your food in the drive-through? Do you ever think to yourself what did I do when I had nothing to do before I had my smartphone?
Now we all grab our phones. Everywhere we go. These tiny machines are attached to us like an extra appendage.
At least that is true for me. Even when I take a shower my phone tags along. Not into the actual shower but there it is, on the counter. Intermittently buzzing and alerting me to all the things happening in my world. My bubble.
We feel connected to the world at large because of our phones but that isn’t exactly true. Our internet-connected phones allow all of our apps to be keenly aware of our “bubble”.
They help us create our own bubbles by noticing the things we like, what we are interested in, what we want to read, watch and know about — so inadvertently we operate in somewhat of a bubble…
