How humans are turning into cyborgs.
What if someone calls me for something urgent?
What if I get some important message or email that I miss out on?
Ever had the above questions coming to your mind when you don’t have your phone around?
This is the most common feeling a lot of us have been getting in recent years. And all of us have, if not now, at some point have got the feeling of missing out on something when we don’t have our phone with us.
This very well explains the fact that due to the outburst and easy availability of phones in our lives, our dependencies have massively shifted on them. And we are slowly and gradually behaving like cyborgs. Cyborgs are fictional characters shown in movies where a person is part human, and part of the body is made up of the machine.
Until some years, cyborgs were only characters in movies. But, gradually, we have started to act just like them. The conventional methods of remembering phone numbers of our close circle, writing notes on paper, and a lot more of these similar activities have faded away from our lives. And these dependencies make us more and more addicted to phones, making us intellectually incapable of performing basic tasks.
A lot of times, despite not having anything on the phone, we tend to keep scrolling through, just to find something that may excite us and make us feel engaged. And if we don’t get anything to entertain us, we lock the phone and start over again after a few minutes.
Phones were never a part of our lives, but we have made them one. We can’t deny that they have made our life easier and provided us with many benefits. And we have replaced most of our other activities with cellphones. We have lost interest in outdoor games, hanging out with people, or sitting vacant doing nothing. This shift to a sedentary lifestyle is costing us our lives, and we have just become robots where we keep scrolling most of the time and can’t stay without looking into phones.
So… How do we fix it?
Very subtle and basic, yet hard to implement.
The biggest cure to this phone addiction is CONSCIOUSNESS. Most of the time we are habitual at doing something, and we keep following the same routine over and over again. Once we are conscious about what we are doing, automatically, we will start finding out ways to break this habit. We need to shift our actions from autopilot mode to a much more conscious and purposeful approach.
The inspiration for the above thought comes from one of the podcasts where Elon Musk was the host. He had commenced the idea about how cellphones have converted humans into cyborgs and we act restless without phones.