Phone-less for a Day

If you've missed me

Hello everyone! I know it's been a while but here I am after 3 months. I remember saying that I hope I won't be lazy after a while, well I was not lazy (maybe a little but not completely). You see, I just started my degree earlier this year so I'm still getting use on how to manage my time which was not going as planned and made me keep my blog aside for a while but I really hope I'll learn to manage my time as time goes by. Right now I'm on sem-break which is coming to an end this weekend therefore I'm taking this time to write about what I experienced today.

So yeah, earlier today I was supposed to see my HOD in uni and my dad said he'll drive me there since he is also going to KL. Halfway reaching Berjaya ( where I study btw), I realized that I left my phone at home. I was already reaching my destination so I had no choice but to carry on without my phone. For those who know me well, you'll probably know how forgetful I am. I can't remember where I put my things most of the time, as you can see, I forgot my phone when it is the most important device someone uses on a daily basis. I couldn't even go home once I'm done because I can't book a Grab and my mom finishes work at 2 so I had no choice but to wait till then. After meeting my lecturer, I decided to just have breakfast and walk around to kill some time. While walking, I realized how much I depend on my phone and how much time I waste on it. I literally have everything in there that I didn't even bother to memorize my family member's number and had to write it down on a paper and bring it with me because I am that dependent on that thing. I read using my phone instead of buying a real book, I learn recipes in there instead of asking my chefs that are just one floor away, I see bible verses that someone shares instead of knowing them by heart.

I also realize that with the time I've wasted , I can actually do something more productive like jogging instead of scrolling my Instagram feed for hours and refreshing it even though I know it's going to be same thing again. During this time, I even felt lifeless, it's just a phone but I feel like I'm missing out a lot without it, when in reality, I actually miss out a lot while using my phone, for example, giving space to an elderly during train rides, not listening to what my sister shares sometime, not observing or realizing the little actions our close one does and the little things that happens around us. We miss out those little things that matters the most cause we spend time in our phones during hangouts and depend on it too much.

I wondered how the young people during the old times survived or spent their time without hand-phone ? Did they carry around a book to write everything down? I have a feeling that the interaction of older people are more real and genuine comparing to now. Oh yea, please bring back the public phones!

This is how a public phone looks like in case you can't remember

It's so hard to look for one these days. The struggle I went through today just to make a phone call was real. Strangers not wanting to lend their phone and the train stations or the customer services in malls look at me as if I'm a weirdo when I say I don't have a phone, some even looked at me as if I'm dealing drugs and using their phone to call my dealer. They said no, we don't provide that service here. Well in my opinion, I think as a customer service or helpline should just let your customer make a phone call cause I don't think it will harm you at all or at least provide public phones. Here's a small challenge for you guys, (If you want to) try to leave your phone at home just for half a day, you'll understand what I'm actually talking about and how dependent we are on the small little thing. Believe it or not, I wrote this whole content on a tissue paper while having my breakfast cause I had that much of time. What I learned today was that we miss lots of little things and the little things matters the most.

My little draft on a tissue paper