Have a respite from the cellphone. "The happiest people today are cellphone-free."

                       Have a Respite from the Cellphone

"The happiest people today are cellphone-free."

Dr Abe V Rotor

• On average, people spend 3 hours and 15 minutes on their phones per day.
• Individuals check their phones an average of 58 times each day.
• Filipinos spend the highest amount of average time on their phones each day.
• Japanese citizens spend under half of the global average time on their smartphones.
• 3 in 4 Gen Zers (Generation Z, also called Gen Z, is the generational cohort following millennials, born between the late 1990s and early 2010s). claim to spend too much time on their smartphones. (Internet)

  

Instinctive Gift of Nature

The unwanted price of having a cellphone is missing the best things life has to offer,  such as your pet dog lapping your face in a casual greeting, and butterflies in the garden alighting on your hands and shoulder. 

 

The Humanities

The cellphone is a machine, it works without feeling, it is a robot. It takes away the humanus in human, and steals away humanities, the finest in a human being - to create the aesthetics no machine can do. 

 

"Books are forever." 

Go back to books.  They stimulate our senses deeper and wider, and reach out for the spring of reason and imagination. (Forget your cellphone, but not to wear your mask.)

 

Metamorphosis

Open your window, look over the horizon, give rest to your computer-tired eyes.  You have been missing the beautiful, magical transformation of time and space, season after season, each a drama of life you were not a part of neither as witness nor participant.

 

Make-believe

Make-believe takes us half the way to reach out for the real, beautiful world of nature awaiting us with all her gifts of health, joy and peace. Says novelist Jules Verne, "How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!"  (The cellphone does not really stimulate, much less challenge, our mental, psychological and spiritual faculties.) 

 

Reverence for Life

Take a break from the cell phone, revere Life and Nature, and keep faith the pandemic crisis is now virtually over. (A visit at the author's residence in San Vicente, Ilocos Sur)

 

Home Garden

A garden pond and a home garden fill the idleness of time and save waste of energy with the cellphone, and give you the rewards in terms of food, exercise and family togetherness, clean and beautiful surroundings notwithstanding, which are the key to healthy and happy living.

 

Childhood Freedom 

Cellphones Away! Ah, freedom to these kids ensconced in the robot-machine.  Childhood is freedom to see and experience the world naturally, neither in hurry nor tarry, with the sweet passing of seasons that prepares them to face the realities of life, and to pursue their dreams. 

   

The happiest people today are cellphone-free

 You can do these things only if  the cellphone does not ring you up, when you really don't need one to attend to your chore.  Happiest you are when left undisturbed. Why make life complicated? Why lose your precious privacy? The Good Life is simple living. ~