A couple of months back I went for a big Saturday night and absentmindedly left my phone at home. For the first couple of hours this made me feel really anxious. I considered catching a taxi home just to get it. What would I miss out on? Who would I not meet up with? What would happen?
To cut a long story short, I ended up having one of the best nights out I have had this year. I went to a great party, met some great people, came home to nothing of any consequence waiting for me on my phone.
This got me thinking about my reliance on technology. How this device that is supposedly designed to bring people together was actually removing me from the moment, always wondering what else was going on, and where else I might need to be. As anyone that knows me will attest I am obsessed with my phone.
I think to borrow from the folks at Vodafone and ‘make the most of now’ we sometimes need to forget about being connected to the world, and instead really concentrate on what is going on then and there.
I know that it is something that I am going to make a habit of doing more often.
Beautiful pic from Catskills Grrl on Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
