Why being on my phone too much makes me feel bad
There’s a threshold of phone use that once crossed makes me feel pretty bad.
I don’t think it has anything to do with the content I’m consuming. I don’t really read News. I don’t “doom scroll”. The content I’m consuming through my phone usually falls somewhere between highly amusing and benign. I don’t struggle with comparing my own life to others’ highlight reels.
I think it just boils down to the fact that there’s nothing in the phone that truly matters to me. My core values are my relationships with my family, my mental health and wellbeing, and creativity/generativity.
Every hour spent with the phone is an hour not spent on anything I actually care about. Which is fine in small doses but as soon as it gets too much I know deep down that I’m not operating in alignment with my values, and that makes me feel quite bad about myself.
This has been post no. 28 for #WeblogPoMo2024 and it is what I was interested in today.
Comments
Alex
May 28, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Yeah. "Bad" is rather vague, though. You might want to look into it closer and try to be more specific.
For myself I identified it as "guilt". I could be doing something productive instead. I could be spending time with people I care about. I could be reading an interesting book instead. And so on. However, often there's a legit reason I'm not doing any of that. It's a day off, I have to get those once in a while. People I care about are far away of busy right now. That interesting book is being delivered but is not here yet. Or there's no good reason and it's much easier to switch away from the phone and start doing those other things.
Wilfredo
May 30, 2024 at 2:31 PM
true
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