You love order, so you’ re scrolling through the pictures on your phone. There are many of them. You notice a new one: it’s of you sleeping at your house.
You love order, so you’re scrolling through the pictures on your phone. There are many of them. You notice a new one: it’s of you sleeping at your house. Â In the picture, you’re holding the phone above your head, looking down at it. You are looking down at it because you are on the phone. You are asleep in your own bed.
The image you’ve just captured has become a permanent part of your life. You can’t delete it. That’s how you’ve experienced it for the past four months: as something permanent. Â But if you look away, you can see the things that were never there.
You can’t change the size of your phone, and you can’t delete it. That’s how you’ve experienced it for the past four months: as something permanent.
A friend tells you she’s planning to move in with her boyfriend, and you are excited for her. Â He’s nice, and it will be nice to have her around all the time. She asks you to move with her, too. You hesitate for a few seconds. You don’t want to say no, because you know she would be angry if you did. Â But you don’t know if you’re ready, either.
It takes you a few days to realize that you can’t move in with your friend. The word that makes it stop is “can.” Â It’s a word with a certain weight, a word that changes things. Â You can’t move in with your friend, and that’s not an impossibility, but it is a risk. Â When it comes to change, you’re willing to take risks. Â But you’re also terrified of change, and so the moment you’re willing to take one, the word “can’t” comes along, and blocks you from doing what you know you need to do.
You’re a worrier, and so you’re scared of saying yes.
You’re afraid of saying no.
It takes you a few more days to realize that it takes you a few more days to realize that you can’t say yes, and that it takes you a few more days to realize that you can’t say no, but that when you try to say yes, the word that makes it stop is “can.” Â That’s how you’ve experienced it for the past four months: as something permanent.
You’re a worrier, and so you’re scared of saying yes.
Sometimes you just have to sit with that fear, because it is powerful. Â Sometimes, you just have to say yes.
“I can’t change the size of my phone.” Â The words are out. Â It’s a natural part of life. Â It’s one of the things you are thankful for every day. Â But you can also say: “I can change the size of my phone,” or “I can erase this picture,” or “I can delete the app.” Â The words are out. Â It’s a natural part of life. Â It’s one of the things you are thankful for every day. Â But you can also say: “I can change the size of my phone,” or “I can erase this picture,” or “I can delete the app.”
You can change the size of your phone, and sometimes that means deleting the picture.
You notice a new picture on your phone: it’s of you sleeping.
On the TV is a picture of your child or grandchild.
On your laptop is a new picture of your family, all smiling.
In your hands are the latest books on weight loss, on how to get your kid to eat vegetables, on how to take care of your mother or your wife.
If you’re fortunate enough to have had a loving parent, you have a thousand of these things on your device, neatly organized on a handy, easy to use screen.
In some ways, this device has made our lives easier.
If we want to go somewhere, we have the ability to use the phone or GPS to find it.
It’s almost an arm, hand, finger – touch away.
It has made our lives more convenient.
But, the truth is that technology has never been more harmful to us.
Technology is very difficult to resist, even though most people know that it can be used for good as well as evil.
In fact, people do good things with technology all the time, just as they do with any tool.