There is significant benefit in doing a digital detox, and I decided to do it again after my 2nd time in Phuket which lasted a week. This time I made it 10 days. My 1st digital detox was when I was in Cuba. I thought it would be a great place to do it, because internet could only be used when physically on the streets anyway, I might as well not have it. I loved it. It felt more like life again, The life we used to have pre-2010. I've always been a camera person, even before smartphones, I'd carry a camera everywhere. I was the Asian person taking pictures all the time, my friend would roll her eyes and smile when I poked my camera at her face. I just loved taking pictures. Phone, however, is a different matter. I hated waiting for txts, waiting to hear back, waiting and waiting, checking the phone to see if I received a message reply. That wasn’t healthy. Smartphones are worse. It's a micro-laptop on hand + a camera + a phone (which is a function I do not use). But the information you can gather on a smartphone is just too much. Looking at the phone becomes a filler of times when we could stare blankly at the ocean/the mountain/the street, thinking inward and giving our brain the time to wander and wonder at things. So that's why I'm doing the digital detox again. I do allow people to msg me, because that's how travelers and my family can stay in touch with me. But I do not look at social media of any kind. That was just the best choice ever. I also had too many things happening day in day out that I had no time to look at the phone anyway. So a week went past like nothing. I didn't need the smart phone for anything but panning a shot with it like a camcorder, or taking videos and photos whenever I did not feel the need to use my camera-camera. Doing the digital detox allows you to connect more with yourself, and spend more time looking at the world rather than the worlds within the phone. I made time for writing my diary instead of looking at the phone,
I made time to read when I had any time at all to do so. In fact I feel like 10 days aren't even enough. I can easily go for 2 weeks or more next time I'm traveling. Especially if I have made a lot of friends. Time away from the phone is a good valuable time, worthy of living 100% present. I highly recommend every one of my friends some of that digital detox. It's so good. I'm going to do it again for every trip I take. Comments are closed.
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