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Don’t loose Yourself

Good morning gentlemen,

So recently I decided to start journaling again. And I have not really written in cursive in a long time. I use to have good penmanship but wow! My cursive writing was atrocious! So I started working in it and I finally got my cursive writing back. But what was amazing was how I loss the skill of writing in cursive. This brought me to thinking about many other things that I have switched over to digital to function.

In my quest I have noticed that we have come to the point that we allow the digital age take away our ability to do the things that we use to do. There are kids now days that can not tell time, they can not count back change when they purchase something. It use to be if you were in a store and the power went out they would still remain open but would hand write and calculate what is owed and what the change would be. Now when the power goes out that shut the store down, not just because of theft, but because most of the employees can not figure out the money owed and money returned.

I looked this up and found out that when you are working and you stop to check your phone it literally takes your brain 23 minutes to re focus. So if you check your phone on the average of 11 times in an hour, you are actually only working productively 15 minutes an hour. And over a year the average person spends three and a half months of the year on their phone! These statistics are astonishing. Yesterday I had to take my wife to a doctor appointment and I had my grandson with us. I had him bring a book to read, as I did myself. As we sat in the waiting room for my wife’s outpatient surgery, I look around and noticed that out of 15 people in the waiting room lobby including my grandson and myself, only three of us were engaged in reading. Everyone else was engrossed in their phones.

When we use our smart phones to plan our lives we loose the ability to be rational, think, and work out solutions. Some of the best detectives and investigators use analog technology to work on cases and solve crimes. Why? Because it helps them engage their minds rather than relying on digital to give them information. Why is that? Because digital does not take into consideration factors like emotions, reason, reactions.

I have since gone back to a lot of analog things such as correspondence in writing unless it requires immediate response or time sensitive information. Writing a letter I found out that my clients take it more personal and they are so appreciative. I now use an analog calendar to schedule, this helps me remember things and also I am less likely to forget to enter something. When I use my watch to tell time I can look at the time and go back to work rather than look at my phone and then I start to look for text and emails. This also helps me to be more time management in my daily scheduling.

Since I have limited my digital life to more analog, My mind is more sharper, I am thinking clearer, I am more engaged in my life and what I am doing. I have regained so many things that I have turned over to the digital age. I encourage you gentlemen, do not let this digital age cause you to loose who you are and your ability to be you.

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