Creating bounds, setting rules.

In a world where technology has taken over, our devices have become a part of us. We use them in our day to day activities which has helped to reduce stress and make life easier. Beyond keeping us entertained, informed and connected to the outside, our mobile devices have become a source of income for about 60-70% of its users globally.

However, while we see the usefulness of phones all over the world, they have been both a blessing and a distraction as well. Teenagers and adults have been carried away with all its features which has caused a disconnection between us, our families and friends. Personally I'm one person that is guilty of this crime. So long as I have enough data on my phone, I do not care about anything again including eating my meals at the appropriate time. Could you believe that before I left for school last year, I always say I will make sure I cook enough food everyday so I don't go hungry unnecessarily but guess what? most of the time I'm always ready to cook, huger would have been singing my name so loudly so I know how distracting our devices can be.

Banning the use of gadgets during a specific time of the day, isn't a bad idea nor does it look like an infringement of rights if the conduct and manner at which it was disclosed to the entire family was done rightly. If truly they want to create special memories together they definitely will oblige. But then, where I'm coming from, this rule will never work not because we don't want to be close to each other but because we are already close to one another with or without our phones.

I remember a few years back, when my phone spoiled and I was phone less for some period of time, whenever I was sitting alone cause of boredom, my siblings would put their phone aside, just to make sure we engage in a conversation and when we run out of what to say one would sacrifice their phones for me just to get in touch with the Internet. So from an early stage, we know when to draw the line and be there for each other and now that we've become busier with our phones, I don't know how we do it but we have a way of communicating effectively using our devices and still bounding at the same time. We only do away with our phones without even communicating it to each other when we are so much interested in the subject matter.
The only special occasion we rightfully know we are not supposed to operate our phones is during family meeting to show we honor whoever is speaking in front of us and to pay attention to details. But then for families who have not been in touch for the longest or are drifted a parts setting a ban to reconnect isn't a bad idea at all.

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