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This week is the National Screen Free Week for 2024. Are you commemorating it? I guess not because as long as you read this article this week, you are not. Well, you are not alone. I am also not commemorating it because I use a screen to bring this to your screen.
The impossibility of this commemoration is not far-fetched. Folks have built their lives around screen time. Their work, family, and even religious association are dependent on the screen, that is, phones, laptops, iPads, tablets, smart TVs, etc. This commemoration would mean that a lot of people would have to put a hold on their lives for a week.
Is it possible for you not to use your mobile devices for a week?
This question has relatable answers to it. We have to look at some factors before we decide on answers to this question. Most people now earn a living using their mobile gadgets. Others connect to their loved ones, spouses, parents, and children through mobile devices. In that sense, mobile gadgets have been more of a blessing to them and something they cannot do without.
The mental health of many solely lies in the hands of having quality screen time. They unwind and escape the harsh faces of reality through mobile gadgets. So it might be impossible for them to get off their mobile gadgets.
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You can decide not to use your mobile devices for a week if you have weighed the disadvantages higher than the advantages. Remember that your decision implies that you will be off from social media, unable to pick up calls except through landline telephones. This decision would also mean that no television watching, you have to seek your amusement from nature and the people around you.
If you have your family members near you, then maybe you can give the National Screen Free week a trial. This can be a possible trial for you if you are the CEO of the company and you have left the affairs of your company in trustworthy hands. But having a screen-free week is a delusion that seems almost impossible this decade.
Why you need to stay screen-free despite the technological advancement
I know it is not easy to stay screen-free for a day not to talk of a week. But you can try a few hours, right? We must not build too much dependency on mobile gadgets such that our lives cannot function properly without them.
High levels of screen time mess with our brain, especially with the production of melatonin, the sleeping hormone. Some people find it hard to sleep without staying glued to their phones. Their gadgets can also keep them up all night depriving them of sleep.
It is quite important to connect to the people around us especially when we are surrounded by our loved ones. Our mobile gadgets should be the reason we stray away from our family. We are very much physical beings who can interact socially without social media.
We understand if you had not prepared for this week to be no screen-time week. Try next week or any other week. You might not be able to run this commemoration for a week as you are a tech bro but you can run it for a day or a few hours. Just make sure you are being intentional and use those few hours off to connect with people around and nature. Let us express our social behaviors without the screen.
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