I received my first cell phone as a Christmas gift back in 2000. By the late 90’s, Germany was the first country in the world to have a full-coverage cellphone network, and up until then I had resisted getting a phone … Even though I had made it public to all and quite clear to my friends that I really didn’t want one, the woman’s team I was coaching at the time got me a cell phone anyway, and I too became “connected”.

What I quickly realized, however, was that the more “connected” I became to the virtual world, the more disconnected I became to my life & its living. My relationships became dulled, my hobbies began gathering dust, and my “Nature-Soak” walks in the woods steadily disappeared.

Upon realizing this one morning, I got up, took my phone to a subway underpass, and threw it repeatedly against the wall until it exploded … I have been free and living freely ever since.

To this day, that remains one of the best decisions I have ever made.

“It’s not that you can’t get things done with the use of a cell phone; indeed you can … However, the nature of what you get done is highly skewed. Just as the man with only a hammer sees everything as nails, the cell phone user accomplishes a variety of tasks that accrue directly because of having a cell phone.” ~ Jeff Davidson

“Think about a catastrophic disaster where the cell phone towers went dead. How would you ever be able to text your next door neighbor to see if they were okay?” ~ Stanley Paskavich

 

Filed under: Practical Tips for Peace-full Living by Scaughdt